Hi all

dragonfly · Coal Joined: Sep 19, 2005 Posts: 6 Location: Seattle

Not sure what to say, but I guess I'll start with myself. I'm a 20 year old college student, and I first started really thinking about peak oil after reading "The Long Emergency".

How's it going you all?

backstop · Posted: Mon Sep 19, 2005 10:37 pm Post subject: Re: Hi all

Dragonfly -

welcome to the site - doubly so for choosing a fine name to adorn it.

As to how its going, as usual its about working with a fraction of the info needed for any sort of definitive overview, from which to develop and test ideas as to where we're headed and what we'd best do about it.

The core questions (over which there's as yet little consensus) are just what rate of decline we'll see & how soon, and whether a growth-based economic system that has known about Hubbert's Peak for 49 years and Global Warming for 29 years, can be made to achieve anything significant in the next 7 years, given the converging escalations of oil-price & climate impacts.

My two pennorth . . .

regards,

Backstop
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"The best of conservation . . . is written not with a pen but with an axe."
(from "A Sand County Almanac" by Aldo Leopold, 1948.

Trindelm · Heavy Crude Joined: Jun 14, 2005 Posts: 101

NEOPO · Posted: Tue Sep 20, 2005 9:20 am Post subject: Re: Hi all

We have yet to find the bottom of this rabbit hole.
Perhaps you can help us? Cool

OilsNotWell · Light Sweet Crude Joined: Aug 11, 2004 Posts: 1257

Welcome to the (end of the) party!

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