Bryant Urstadt talks about "Imagine There's No Oil—Scenes from a Liberal Apocalypse," his August, 2006, Harper's Magazine cover story about "peak oil" and the people who worry about it

California Politics Today #606

Cape Cod, Massachusetts
July 29, 2006

By Marc Strassman
Reporter
California Politics Today
Solar World
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part of the August, 2006, cover of Harper's Magazine


Harper's Magazine surfaces the issue of "peak oil" to a semi-mass audience

The August, 2006, issue of Harper's Magazine features as its cover story Imagine There's No Oil—Scenes from a Liberal Apocalypse, by Bryant Urstadt, which includes a discussion of the "peak oil" phenomenon and provides coverage of a peaknik "meet-up" in New York City and a peak-oil convention in Yellow Springs, Ohio.

an audio interview with Bryant Urstadt, author of Imagine There's No Oil—Scenes from a Liberal Apocalypse

The Peak Oil/Global Warming Channel, an online video channel utilizing Brightcove technology, spoke by phone this morning with Bryant Urstadt, author of the August, 2006, Harper's Magazine cover story Imagine There's No Oil—Scenes from a Liberal Apocalypse.

You can listen to that audio interview with Mr. Urstadt about peak oil and the people who worry about it by clicking here.

additional, related materials

You can access a previous, shorter treatment of similar issues in another piece by Mr. Urstadt in his October, 2005, article "The Get-Ready Men--The cheap oil will end one day. What about civilization? in Technology Review from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

You can access a copy of the May 3, 2006, Report of the Energy Council at MIT, which sets out an ambitious plan to address peak oil and related issues through a concerted program of research, education, and practice, by clicking here.

For an official view from the U.S. Government (the Energy Information Administration [EIA] at the Department of Energy [DOE]) about peak oil and related issues, as of August 18, 2004, take a look at "Long-Term World Oil Supply Scenarios--The Future Is Neither as Bleak or Rosy as Some Assert," by John H. Wood, Gary R. Long, and David F. Morehouse.

For an op-ed piece from today's New York Times by Katherine Ellison, author of The Mommy Brain: How Motherhood Makes Us Smarter, entitled It’s Not the Heat, It’s the Stupidity, linking this week's more than 130 heat wave-related deaths in California to global warming, click here.




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