For the time being at least, it is not that the oceans are coming that will bother us in Ireland but the fact that the rivers are coming – through the front door. As if on queue this week’s dramatic floods coincided with a report by the Irish Academy of Engineers. The report says that […]
Archive for the 'Peak Oil & Climate Change' Category
There were quite a few Irish Transition Towns represented at Feasta’s recent New Emergency conference including Monaghan, Clonmel, Cloughjordan and Kilkenny. It was a three day affair arguing that we are at the oil peak and now face the twin problems of climate change and peak oil along with an economy in steep decline. “This […]
“One day we will run out of oil, it is not today or tommorro, but one day we will run out of oil and we have to leave oil before oil leaves us”. This is a quote from Dr. Birol, chief economist at the International Energy Agency in a recent interview with The Independent. His […]
Never had an “As you go out into the world” lecture when I left college. Perhaps I was’nt paying attention or maybe its just an American thing. Anyway here are the texts from two very different climate/peak oil activists.
Speaking recently about the economy Minister for finance Brian Lenihan said “You would want to be a cross between a prophet and a soothsayer and a clairvoyant to predict what will happen after 2011″. If only our leaders would stand back, take a systems approach to understanding the world and consider the importance of energy […]