tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5680771968888528726.post7630189604568614378..comments2023-11-05T00:38:56.097-07:00Comments on 21st Century British Nationalism: Peak Oil and the Credit CrunchDefender of Libertyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16093052197059748663noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5680771968888528726.post-78924432588606448642009-06-18T05:14:47.822-07:002009-06-18T05:14:47.822-07:00I am not sure how you think peak oil can be solved...I am not sure how you think peak oil can be solved - that the stuff is running out is a geological fact and absolute. It gets 'solved' by 1) finding other sources of energy, and 2) reducing use of oil, which means being more efficient AND, the taboo which is never discussed mainstream, of world population numbers which need reducing.<br /><br />I don't feel that this Peak oil drum is banged about as much as you think, I have hardly ever seen it on mainstream media or sources. Yes it has been sporadically discussed on the BNP site (though is tucked away) and on Lee's Blog more so. For such an epoch changing topic, and it is - consider that ALL we take as granted WILL change or disappear. For a blip of luck in having this magic black stuff in our lifetime and our parents lifetime has made us incredibly spolit to a level never previously experienced in human history. <br /><br />Surely it is a topic that needs at least a spotlight - no it doesn't shadow everything else regards BNP vision?<br /><br />Yep, global warming as put to the world's public is, I have increasingly been thinking, a lie of sorts. Any measured warming, and it did up to the early 2000s, could be due to any reason non-man-made. <br /><br />It is easier for the world's establishment to say we must cut back on fossil fuel because of climate change as it is not as worrying to say that that fuel is RUNNING out and we will have none, at least not without resource wars etc. That is not to say we should not behave with more responsibility to the planet's resources and natural world, of course we should, and then some!<br /><br />I think you're inaccurate to say that the effects are 'slow and slight almost inperseptable'. You will see the repeated peak and trough patterns of oil prices over the coming years, each time becoming more extreme. In a global system such effects are huge. Needless to say this latest depression (though I never understand the logic of so-called perpetual economic growth)is in part attributed to the model of Peak oil - it is something that the establishment media has not really examined - as if oil were seperate from the modern world, and that all can be remedied by Alice in Wonderland credit. I'd also draw attention to the world's food supply - ever more mouths etc, all requiring oil and its derivatives (fertilisers etc) in its transportation and creation. There was that episode during the oil price hike of food shortages in a number of countries.<br /><br />If I add that we have not been self-sufficient in Britain in food since about late 19th Century (in part due to our big increase in population, and possibly various enclosure acts) may focus that this is something that we in this country are certainly not immune from, indeed, considering our size and population we are in the frontline of all the developed countries.<br /><br />Better it is not to bury head in the sand? We in Britain have little oil - North Sea peaked about 10 years ago! Preparing the way for other energy alternatives is a positive step for energy doctrine. I'd leave the 'carbon emission nut jobs' to the other mainstream political parties. <br /><br />RossAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5680771968888528726.post-78007494724865936232009-06-16T13:54:41.155-07:002009-06-16T13:54:41.155-07:00Peak oil is a slow rising problem that can be solv...Peak oil is a slow rising problem that can be solved, through technology and management.<br /><br />To keep banging the Peak oil drum when almost no effect will be seen is not a good strategy.<br /><br />It comes across much like the global warming lie, as while peak oil is not a lie the effects are slow and slight almost inperseptable, after a period people just switch off.<br /><br />While keeping an eye on all issues is good, highlighting this one does not gain us any further credibility.<br /><br />We are starting to sound like the carbon emission nut jobs.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com