What giant sucking sound?

Thursday, May 18, 2006

Michael Vickerman, RENEW Wisconsin's Executive Director, wrote an excellent summary of the speech given by Richard Heinberg at the Renewable Energy and Sustainable Living Fair in June of 2004:

Somewhere between our current fossil fuel binge and the promise of a sustainable energy future lies a geological destiny that threatens to plunge the world into economic hardship and warfare. That inescapable event is Peak Oil, and, if Richard Heinberg, author of The Party’s Over, is correct, its arrival will usher in a time of unprecedented stress and turmoil, the likes of which we Americans are completely unprepared to deal with.

Speaking at the June 2004 Midwest Renewable Energy Fair in Custer, Wisconsin, Heinberg characterized the global embrace of hydrocarbons as “the biggest party in history” and noted that the United States has been “at the center of the oil empire” over the last century.
This year's Fair features James Howard Kunstler, an equally insight and entertaining speaker and author, at 1:00 p.m. on Saturday, June 24, Custer, Wisconsin (just a few miles east of Stevens Ponit).

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