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Shell Sponsoring Peak Oil Communication? (4 posts)

  1. truthmod
    Administrator

    Of course, some people will jump on this as proof that PO is a oil industry / elite sham. But I think it's interesting to see how the oil execs are talking.

    Here's the other side, that many oil/energy industry people stick to:

    There Is No Gas Shortage
    http://www.businessweek.com/lifestyle/content/apr2...

    Shell Sponsoring Peak Oil Communication?

    http://www.theoildrum.com/node/3803

    Click on the image to the right to download the .pdf of a full page "advert" which appeared in both Time and Fortune magazines over Easter. It was written by Jeremy Leggett, the prominent peak oil and climate change commentator and proponent of renewable energy (also Chairman of Solarcentury).

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    http://www.theoildrum.com/files/20080324%20Time%20...

    Posted 16 years ago #
  2. Kim
    Member

    Maybe they're aiming not to get tarred and feathered by the masses when the shit hits the fan . . . and I don't blame them . . . Thanks for posting that too. It will be very useful in my educational approaches to my local council (newly elected). I've already made some good in-roads with key people, and now need to do much more.

    Posted 16 years ago #
  3. JennySparks
    Member

    It makes sense really-- "manage the opposition" by getting in on it. Been done everywhere else--why not in peak oil?

    What I'd be concerned about long term is the unsustainable petrol industry being replaced by a slightly less unsustainable mono-crop biodeisel industry. This is something peak oil activists need to be on the watch for--alternative energy does not automatically mean sustainable, ethical use of environment and labor. Remember most war mongers in history--the Roman Empire, etc.--were not based on petroleum and grew organic food.

    The only reason peak oil solutions are thought of as a "radical, environmental, social justice, anti-global"thing is because a radical culture has promoted it until now. If I was an Evil Overlord reading the writing on the wall I would move into the ground floor NOW and try to co-opt as much of alternative energy as possible.

    Posted 16 years ago #
  4. truthmod
    Administrator

    Yes, no doubt that many "environmental" initiatives will not be made or proposed in order to further equality and justice, but rather out of necessity or to sustain greed and domination.

    But I think these problems are going to be so large that they will require a paradigm shift toward compassion and equality. We're going to have to understand why and where we went so wrong.

    The greedy and the strictly self interested will continue to deny the root causes of our predicament, because they are so fundamental to their character and view of the world.

    From "Beyond Vietnam," April 4, 1967, Riverside Church, New York City.

    http://www.alternet.org/story/21003/

    MLK:

    In 1957 a sensitive American official overseas said that it seemed to him that our nation was on the wrong side of a world revolution. ... I am convinced that if we are to get on the right side of the world revolution, we as a nation must undergo a radical revolution of values. We must rapidly begin the shift from a "thing-oriented" society to a "person-oriented" society. When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, materialism, and militarism are incapable of being conquered.

    A true revolution of values will soon cause us to question the fairness and justice of many of our past and present policies. ... A true revolution of values will soon look uneasily on the glaring contrast of poverty and wealth. With righteous indignation, it will look across the seas and see individual capitalists of the West investing huge sums of money in Asia, Africa and South America, only to take the profits out with no concern for the social betterment of the countries, and say: "This is not just." It will look at our alliance with the landed gentry of Latin America and say: "This is not just." The Western arrogance of feeling that it has everything to teach others and nothing to learn from them is not just. A true revolution of values will lay hands on the world order and say of war: "This way of settling differences is not just." This business of burning human beings with napalm, of filling our nation's homes with orphans and widows, of injecting poisonous drugs of hate into veins of people normally humane, of sending men home from dark and bloody battlefields physically handicapped and psychologically deranged, cannot be reconciled with wisdom, justice and love. A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.

    America, the richest and most powerful nation in the world, can well lead the way in this revolution of values. There is nothing, except a tragic death wish, to prevent us from reordering our priorities, so that the pursuit of peace will take precedence over the pursuit of war. There is nothing to keep us from molding a recalcitrant status quo with bruised hands until we have fashioned it into a brotherhood.

    Posted 16 years ago #

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