Are We Nearing The End of The Oil Age?
The current environmental crisis playing out in the Gulf of Mexico – the oil spill from the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig accident – is prompting people to question our relationship to oil. As “easy oil” is used up, oil firms are turning to harsh challenges like deep water drilling, Arctic drilling and recovering oil from tar sands. Are the efforts and the environmental risks worth it? How close are we to the end of oil? Science and sustainability writer Stephen Hinton believes we are approaching the end of the oil age. To put it in perspective, he brings us up to date with a brief account of the rise and fall of the oil age.
President Obama said in January 2006: “No single issue is as fundamental to our future as energy”.
Grass roots organisations have sprung up like ASPO, the association for the study of peak oil, and the Transition Towns movement.
Now at least you cannot say to your grandchildren that you did not have a clue the oil age was coming to an end, or chance to get involved.
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Post CommentOdell50
On June 11, 2010 at 12:00 am
Good article!