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I could never figure out why in all of Britain there isn't a single Web-site devoted to PO survival issues (I mean, excluding "alternative energy"), whereas there are many in other countries. Even Norway has a few, for heaven's sake. You'd think that as the United Kingdom plunges into the ...

[quote="biffvernon"]I gave up at the post Peak Oil wheelbarrow that doesn't have pneumatic tyres (aka tires). I'm mean, its not as if rubber grows on trees, is it? Here in sunny Irondale, Ontario, if I have a puncture in a wheelbarrow tire, I have to have all the necessary materials to fix...

http://www.countercurrents.org/goodchild171207.htm DEALING WITH PEAK-OIL DEPRESSION Peter Goodchild Explaining the problem of dwindling hydrocarbon resources to seven billion people is hard enough, especially since my computer tells me that there are only seven hundred people really concerned about ...

http://www.countercurrents.org/goodchild121207.htm GROWING FOOD WHEN THE OIL RUNS OUT Peter Goodchild Most people in modern industrial society get their food mainly from supermarkets. As a result of declining hydrocarbon resources, however, it is unlikely that such food will always be available. The...

My guess is that this is going to be big trouble. The US dollar may really fall. The dollar has been kept artificially high for years mainly because the world?s oil is traded with US dollars. About two years ago, there were lots of stories based on the idea that Bush had a huge dilemma coming up: ei...

My guess is that this is going to be big trouble. The US dollar may really fall. The dollar has been kept artificially high for years mainly because the world?s oil is traded with US dollars. About two years ago, there were lots of stories based on the idea that Bush had a huge dilemma coming up: ei...

http://www.countercurrents.org/goodchild051207.htm ALTERNATIVE ENERGY AND THE POLLYANNA PRINCIPLE Peter Goodchild The problem of explaining ?peak oil? does not hinge on the issue of peak oil as such, but rather on that of ?alternative energy.? Most people now have some idea of the concept of peak oi...

http://www.countercurrents.org/goodchild301107.htm THE FIRST DAYS OF PETRO COLLAPSE Peter Goodchild ?We can attribute the lack of response to $100 oil to any number of factors: apathy, dumbing down, fear, insanity, addictions, and the beginning of system collapse.? ? Jan Lundberg, ?Oil Prices and Re...

BRITAIN AND THE OBSESSION WITH SOLAR POWER Peter Goodchild I?m still utterly PUZZLED about Britain?s obsession with solar power. The gist of the argument seems to be, ?It doesn?t matter if oil runs out, because by then everything will be run on solar power.? This is the basic idea behind about 99% o...

http://www.countercurrents.org/goodchild221107.htm HANDY HINTS FOR POST-PETROLEUM Peter Goodchild The priority of these ?hints? will vary as the years go by, but most of them will remain relevant over the course of the century. The slight bias toward northern North America is partly due to the fact ...

People seem to be forgetting a basic issue: the countries with high population density have that population because they are relatively sympathetic to human habitation. They have a temperate climate, or have a good geographical position conducive to trade, or they have natural resources or whatever...

I must be missing the point here. I really don't see why an American invasion is any sort of issue. The two countries have been (for better or worse) living side by side for two hundred years. I know this sounds silly, but -- some of my best friends are Americans. I lived in the US for about seven y...

This is a pasting from earlier: Here are some numbers on the ratio of population to arable land (hectares): World: 3.3:1 Australia 0.4:1 Kazakhstan: 0.7:1 Canada: 0.7:1 And, dropping far down the list: China: 9:1 UK: 11:1 Haiti: 11:1 And, much further: Kuwait: 167:1 Out of a list of the 210 main cou...

Yes, some very good points there. As for arable land, I went into all that in "Agriculture in a Post-Oil Economy": http://www.powerswitch.org.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=5204&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0 The UK scores reasonably well, but certainly not reasonably well enough. ...

A couple of random thoughts. (2) If you?re not used to moving around, then it?s harder to leave your native land. Myself, I don?t have that problem, because I?ve been moving around all my life. If you?re not used to it, then obviously there?s a psychological barrier to be dealt with. (1) As for coun...