The Seneca Effect - Will the drop in world Oil production be very rapid?

[brent217]

This is the best read of my week:

http://www.theoildrum.com/node/8317

Not sure I agree with his pollution thesis though. So far, in Alberta, we have dealt with pollution increases by stopping the measurement of said pollution.

The water is reported as contaminated? No problem. Lay off the government workers that measure water pollution. Ta Da! Problem fixed.

The air appears to be contaminated with radiation drifting in from Fukushima? No problem. "Temporarily" close the measurement stations.

Of course, we now have the highest incidence of MS in the country, and Asthma rates in for children that live in suburbs downwind of our refineries are 4 times the national average, but secondary medical costs do not impact the bottom line of corporations.

Ranting aside, I see the corporations just buying the governments (lobbying/bribery, whatever you want to call it) in order to stop pollution laws, and I see resource exploitation full speed ahead to the end, which would make the severe drop in resource exploitation not happen... however, with enough pollution, we might have a higher drop in the human population.

Thanks to that tree-hugger Charles Smith for his link to that article, though his views are far more optimistic than my own:

http://www.oftwominds.com/blog.html

[touchring]

Re: The Seneca Effect - Will the drop in world Oil production be very rapid?

Thanks, it's really scientific material. c1ue will love it!

I believe that cancer healthcare will be a good investment in the next 20 years.

This is the best read of my week:

http://www.theoildrum.com/node/8317

Not sure I agree with his pollution thesis though. So far, in Alberta, we have dealt with pollution increases by stopping the measurement of said pollution.

The water is reported as contaminated? No problem. Lay off the government workers that measure water pollution. Ta Da! Problem fixed.

The air appears to be contaminated with radiation drifting in from Fukushima? No problem. "Temporarily" close the measurement stations.

Of course, we now have the highest incidence of MS in the country, and Asthma rates in for children that live in suburbs downwind of our refineries are 4 times the national average, but secondary medical costs do not impact the bottom line of corporations.

Ranting aside, I see the corporations just buying the governments (lobbying/bribery, whatever you want to call it) in order to stop pollution laws, and I see resource exploitation full speed ahead to the end, which would make the severe drop in resource exploitation not happen... however, with enough pollution, we might have a higher drop in the human population.

Thanks to that tree-hugger Charles Smith for his link to that article, though his views are far more optimistic than my own:

http://www.oftwominds.com/blog.html

[jk]

Re: The Seneca Effect - Will the drop in world Oil production be very rapid?

Thanks, it's really scientific material. c1ue will love it!

I believe that cancer healthcare will be a good investment in the next 20 years.

too bad there isn't a vehicle to invest in cancer directly.

[shiny!]

Re: The Seneca Effect - Will the drop in world Oil production be very rapid?

too bad there isn't a vehicle to invest in cancer directly.

Well, you could invest in Bayer. They make genetically-engineered "herbicide tolerant" soybeans, they make the pesticides and herbicides to spray on them, and they make chemotherapy drugs for the resulting cancers.

[c1ue]

Re: The Seneca Effect - Will the drop in world Oil production be very rapid?

Thanks to that tree-hugger Charles Smith for his link to that article, though his views are far more optimistic than my own:

Interesting to see how someone in 2011 is criticizing the destruction of US old growth forests which occurred generations ago.

http://www.slideshare.net/WorldResou...s-southern-usa

As for the other 'scientific facts' - please by all means provide some links.

I am always interested in new information assuming it is in context.

[lektrode]

Re: The Seneca Effect - Will the drop in world Oil production be very rapid?

Interesting to see how someone in 2011 is criticizing the destruction of US old growth forests which occurred generations ago.

http://www.slideshare.net/WorldResou...s-southern-usa

As for the other 'scientific facts' - please by all means provide some links.

I am always interested in new information assuming it is in context.

+1

[Starving Steve]

Re: The Seneca Effect - Will the drop in world Oil production be very rapid?

Good for Alberta, and good for Japan!........ Lay-off the whole bunch of eco-frauds and environmentalist trouble-makers. Let them starve.

Why is it that the Govn't of Alberta and Albertans understand how to deal with Greenpeace and the Friends of the Earth, and that entire bunch; but in British Columbia the environmentalist extremists run the provincial government (the Liberals) and even run their so-called, "official opposition" (the NDP)?

In BC, it isn't even tweedle-dee and tweedle-dumb on the environment, but it's tweedle-dumb and tweedle-dumber.