I first heard about it from my brother about a year or two ago. He's been worried about issues like global warming and mass extinction for a while.
However it didn't really emotionally hit me at that time. I'm not sure why; I guess I was concentrating on my own life, and I thought vaguely it was something that would happen down the road.
It was Kunstler's article in the Rolling Stones, "The Long Emergency," that woke me up. For some reason, it hit me that this was real, and that I would very likely witness it in my life time. That lead me to think about global warming and resource depletion, and I've been worrying about it and reading about it ever since. It's even gotten me to think about spiritual matters; I've been in touch with a spiritual community I left a couple of years ago.
It's funny that it was Kunstler's article that woke me up. He's not even my favorite author now. He's a journalist rather than a scientist, and I feel I have to take what he says with a grain of salt because of his biases (for example, he would hate suburbia regardless of whether there was peak oil or not). Now I'm listening to people like Dr. Goodstein, Dr. Smalley, and Richard Heinburg.
My sister sent me a link to the Kunstler article in Rolling Stone which got me started. I've also been a mix of a conservationist and a contrarian, and I've long believed that the fossil fuel party won't go on forever. It's only recently that I've seen the links between the US Government, GM, Exxon, Wal-Mart, the housing bubble, Fannie Mae, Bush military adventures, and dwindling fossil fuel resources.
I was in a bar in Hoboken with my friend and I saw a promo for Oil Storm (ironic is that it was just after the NASCAR All-Star race, will car racing be as prevalent in the future?). I googled Oil Storm that night, and I found peakoil.com. Since then I've enlisted both of my sisters, an old roommate, and an uncle.
I first got acquainted with peak oil during a lecture by a prominent physicist whose name escapes me. The lecture was more than about peak oil, in fact peak oil was only a small part, it was mainly about exponential growth and its inherent unsustainability. This was more than a year back and I forgot all about it, then I saw the movie 'The end of suburbia' with a bunch of friends, and then I did some research on my own and landed up here. I lurked for a while and then it seemed that the population of doomers is far higher than it should be so I decided to counterbalance things by joining in.
Posted: Sat Dec 31, 2005 10:10 am Post subject: Re: How did you find peakoil.com?
I just read Mike Whitney's op-ed piece "Doomsday for the Greenback", which quotes from William R. Clark's book, "Petrodollar Warfare; Dollars, Euros and the upcoming Iranian Oil Bourse” - and googled that author's name.
Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2006 8:32 am Post subject: Re: How did you find peakoil.com?
Listened to a show on the Pacifica Radio station in LA two years ago where listeners called in. Forgot what the show was about, but out of context one listener called, stating that the larger picture could all be understood by PeakOil, a term that I have not heard up to then. At home I did a Google search and found PeakOil.net. At some point I found the forum on PeakOil.com and got hooked, since I figured that there were others who grasped the underlaying magnitude of the issue.
It is surprising though how small the crowd stays. At any given point, check who's online and it is always a number of maybe 20 members, 40 or 50 guest and that's about it, just scroll down to the bottom of the page:
Posted: Mon Feb 13, 2006 9:20 am Post subject: Re: How did you find peakoil.com?
ASPO.
My intro to "peak oil" came in University, some years back (1999), when a proffesor stated we are runnining out of oil, finaly...no matter what i countered she said "it won't be enough".... kind of sparked my intrest, but not enough to look for the concept I did not yet know existed.
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Posted: Sun Mar 12, 2006 12:11 am Post subject: Re: How did you find peakoil.com?
jsb, you might as well might make fun of your grandmother. The site you quote is a 'cul de sac' per definition and indicates a lack of solid reasoning from your side in the first place.
Posted: Thu Mar 23, 2006 12:23 am Post subject: Re: How did you find peakoil.com?
ChoKyOTO, you sure qualify as one of the most unusual finds (it works both ways I guess) and JSB, correct I was consuming a bottle of wine when posting the tatoo pic (no offense). The site you quote is actually quite cool, found new material for my Doomsday Device thread.
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