I decided to do something a bit different this week. I decided to join a few online discussion boards that I thought would be less likely to share my views on...
James, you're brave taking that on! I think the main problem was you expected intelligence, rational thinking, etc, from people who are willing, if not keen,...
Yes, kudos to you... and you are right. People just do not want to know about anything that will "upset" their current way of being. It is all TOO HARD to...
... All valid points in this thread. Of course there's yet another reason for ignoring peak oil: "Scientists are always inventing new things, so we'll have a...
Enter your vote today! A new poll has been created for the ASPO_Oz_YoungProf group: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES (LOWER HOUSE) With Peak Oil in mind, I intend to...
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Enter your vote today! A new poll has been created for the ASPO_Oz_YoungProf group: SENATE (UPPER HOUSE) With Peak Oil in mind, I intend to vote the following...
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Hi all, I've set up 2 polls on the website, asking which way you intend to vote on election day: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ASPO_Oz_YoungProf/polls One is...
... I'll start - I'm in Mayo and have Alex (don't look down Alex) Downer as my federal representative. Last election, I was in Kingsford Smith (NSW) so had to...
There is a more comprehensive poll available at: http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/specialreports/election2007/ Get yourself counted! Cheers, James ... to ...
... That was good, but I'm disappointed that it doesn't touch on the issue of overpopulation (surprise!). Take conservation measures for water, for example. We...
Oh, it's simple, isn't it? Thanks to technological advances like desalination plants, and with unlimited supplies of clean coal to power them, we can continue...
... We really are doomed :P ... I agree with you there. Pulling families back together, so that older people rely on their children is also a good start. The...
Yes, so we need to campaign for our government's economists to see "economic decline" as a satisfactory means to achieve efficiency. That is, to value the...
Perhaps phrased not so much "economic decline" as "redistribution" to reduce the potential negative impact. One of the biggest hurdles of such a scheme is...
Sent from ROEOZ for those who don't subscribe there also. The Road Well Travelled http://www.monbiot.com/archives/2007/10/30/the-road-well-travelled/ ...
A lot of people - young and old - like the idea of travelling around the world. Does anyone here have an ethical perspective on this? I don't know. I don't...
... Shouldn't any action that destroys more than it creates be considered unethical? For the sake of catapulting people around the earth to satisfy their...
... around ... I ... choose to ... are ... of ... trouble ... sure ... already ... what about sea and rail travel? car-pooling on domestic interstate travel?...
According to George Monbiot in "HEAT", sea travel is by far the worst form of passenger transport in terms of fuel and CO2. I don't know how much it would...
... sea, ... I'm not surprised that a luxury cruise ship is inefficient in its fuel use, but how does a Sydney / Spirit of Tas ferry type craft compare with a...
According to http://strickland.ca/efficiency.html, the Queen Mary 2 ocean liner consumes about 16L/100km per passenger. That's pretty dismal but when you...
The chief economist of the International Energy Agency has come out in a studding interview saying that "our energy system's wheels may fall off". It was only...
(for those in Adelaide) Insurmountable Opportunities: success in a resource-limited world James Bradfield Moody General Manager, International Development ...
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB119543677899797558.html This is big news to be coming from the Wall Street Journal, not exactly renowned for its left wing...
The ALP mentions "declining domestic oil production" in the following statement: http://www.alp.org.au/media/1107/msrese220.php As far as I'm aware the Greens...
I don't have the website on policies for the others, but the PTUA's transport-based scorecard and reasoning is on the PTUA website. The expanded version has a...
The following ASPO_Oz_YoungProf poll is now closed. Here are the final results: POLL QUESTION: SENATE (UPPER HOUSE) With Peak Oil in mind, I intend to vote...
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