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Ok, so i did it - got onto those planes and thus blew all possible attemps to reduce my carbon footprint for years to come. I have no excuse...



But now I am here, spending some nice late summer days with my friends and family and intensely hoping that whole aviation thing is going to hold up until I safely made it back home. How terrible.



However, I am getting the chance to make some observations as to the state of the rest of the world... and I thought I might as well… Continue

My friend Juanita pointed out to me in the car yesterday, that she felt there is an "above average" ratio of "spiritual" people involved in TT. She also mentioned how she went through a phase of intense "spiritual development" herself before picking up on the Peak Oil issue. She felt there was a reason for that - her inner journey preceding this time, giving her the strength and optimism necessary to not throw her hands in the air and surrender to the feeling of hopelessness.



I feel… Continue

Ha! Watched "Escape from Suburbia" the other day... Whilst again being slightly too American for me, I thought the gay guy towards the end hit the nail on the head: He likens knowing about Peak Oil to "being gay and in the closet - you don't want to talk about it to your friends so they don't think you're weird. You don't want to talk to your family so you don' t upset them. And you don't want to talk about it at work, because you don't want to be singled out". Very much how I feel... Somewhat… Continue

Lots and lots of things come to mind when you think about Peak Oil... economic, social, environmental. You begin going through scenarios in your head and work through the entire spectrum from grief to anger to fear and so on - I'm sure most people here are familiar with this. However, the more I talk about it to people, especially those who have been "aware" on some level or another for a while - the more the response seems to be more of a sense of excitement, a "bring it on" - even "go on,… Continue

Just read an article on a German website by a banking / sharemarket oil expert (Eugen Weinberg of Commerzbank, Germany -http://boerse.ard.de/content.jsp?go=meldung&key=dokument_287200 – is in German, though) . Here’s a short summary:





* A global peak of oil production is nowhere in sight

* Russia hasn’t peaked, but production is stagnating merely due to a lack of investments

* The recent discovery of a giant oil field off shore Brazil (est 33 billion barrels) will… Continue