Peak Oil - Curse or blessing in disguise

Many people don’t believe that a world wide peak oil scenario is on its way, and how it will affect our lives. But I can assure you that it will come and it will come rather sooner than later. There are lots of researchers out there who know what they are talking about, and they show clearly that a peak oil scenario is near.

If you look at the documentary ‘The end of suburbia’ and many well written books it will open your eyes to how deep we are already in trouble.

But why would that be a blessing in disguise?

We as the inhabitants of this earth are heading towards destruction with high speed. And all this is fueled by fossil fuels, like oil, gas, and coal. Once these resources are goneor limited global warming scenarios would slow down as well. Of course this is a over simplified view, I must admit. But what else does the 'resonsible' people make think ahead?
If someone wants to get the DVD or video documentary ‘The end of suburbia’, try your local library or I can help to get a copy of it.

And last but not least I want to provide this link to Orion Online Magazine which gives a series of video interviews with Jim Kunstler, an expert on this subject, talking about peak-oil.
http://www.oriononline.org/pages/oo/curwis/index_Kunstler.html

Some booktitles I can recommend:

Richard Heinberg, Powerdown: Options and Actions for a Post-Carbon World and The Party's Over: Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies
James Howard Kunstler, The Long Emergency: Surviving Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-first Century
Kenneth S. Deffeyes, Beyond Oil: The View from Hubbert's Peak and Hubbert's Peak: The Impending World Oil Shortage

Birth of a new Ocean?

According to a BBC report scientists say they have witnessed the possible birth of a future ocean basin growing in north-eastern Ethiopia that could split the african continent.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4512244.stm

On this BBC site you can see some basic information about how earthquakes happen.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4126809.stm

Earthquake Maps

There is a increasing number of earthquakes lately.
This is a link to a worldmap of earthquakes.
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsww/index.php?old=world.html

If you live in California, check this link
http://quake.wr.usgs.gov/recenteqs/latest.htm

People who follow these activities tell me that the increase is massive.

On 3/9/2006 we had some crazy hail storms in southern Oklahoma.

Ice Caps are melting

Not that this is all something new. Alert citizens knew it for years, for decades.
The earth is changing. And changing is normally a neutral thing; but the earth is deteriorating - faster and faster.

Now even scientist admit, that the ice caps on the South and the North Pole are melting, because of global worming.
Over the last years we could see that Greenland is in a major shift.

The glaciers there are melting dramatically. I posted this picture from http://www.universetoday.com/ that shows how the glacier in Greenland is moving.

The water levels will rise and many islands and cities on the cost will get in deep trouble. But this is only the beginning of the end.
Take action. Change your habits. Be more conscious. Vote for a change. Vote with your consumer power.

See also http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4660938.stm