{"id":1329,"date":"2005-06-26T13:56:00","date_gmt":"2005-06-26T13:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sustainablog.greenoptions.com\/2005\/06\/26\/the-bigger-picture-of-peak-oil\/"},"modified":"2005-06-26T13:56:00","modified_gmt":"2005-06-26T13:56:00","slug":"the-bigger-picture-of-peak-oil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/articles\/the-bigger-picture-of-peak-oil\/","title":{"rendered":"The Bigger Picture of Peak Oil"},"content":{"rendered":"
Thanks to my buddy Doug for passing along this essay by Shepherd Bliss<\/a> from Dissident Voice<\/em> that is both a review of several recent books on peak oil, and a consideration of the concept itself. Bliss uses the volcanoes of his home state Hawaii as a metaphor for the growing crises that peak oil may well set in motion and\/or accelerate, and ruminates on prophets from both history and myth that predicted life-altering change ahead. While he’s critical of our general denial of the issue, particularly in the United States, he also sees potential for hope in a move towards lifestyles and communities that are \u201corganic, small-scale, local, convivial, cooperative, slower paced, human-oriented rather than machine-oriented, agrarian, diverse, democratic, culturally rich, and ecologically sustainable.\u201d A thought-provoking piece…<\/p>\n Technorati tags: peak oil<\/a>, book review<\/a>, prophecy<\/a>, Hawaii<\/a><\/p>\n Books by James Howard Kunstler<\/a>, Jared Diamond<\/a> and Richard Heinberg<\/a> at Powells.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Thanks to my buddy Doug for passing along this essay by Shepherd Bliss from Dissident Voice that is both a review of several recent books on peak oil, and a [ … ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n