ghotir
09.06.05, 21:18
zamieszczam ponizszy tekst z dwoch powodow. (1) ciekaw jestem Waszych opinii.
(2) chce podac osobom zainteresowanym ?grass root movements? interesujacy link.
Jim Hightower jest autorem kilku ksiazek. Kiedys pracowal dla rzadu stanowego
w Teksasie, obecnie jest 'radio-talk host' i wydaje pisemko Lowdown. Sprawy
ktore on porusza dotycza wewnetrznych polityk U.S., choc ostatnio widac tam
takze troche miedzynarodowych zagadnien, szczegolnie irak. Mozna dowiedziec
sie z jego publikacji jak rozmawiac z ludzmi, ktorzy nie maja wyzszego
wyksztalcenia, i jak przyciagac ludzi do politycznych akcji.
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The world is running out of oil. You don?t hear politicians talk about this,
and it?s a taboo topic among the oil barons, but an increasing number of
geophysicists agree that production either has ?peaked? or will very soon,
meaning we humans have already consumed half of the oil that is feasible for
commercial extraction. This is the point of diminishing returns for the fuel
that the industrial world is almost totally hooked on. We?re going to be
sucking up the final half of the undergoing reservoirs of oil that it took
Mother Nature millions of years to create, and the second half is much more
costly to extract. Oil experts at Goldman Sachs calculate that crude prices
could spike as high as $105 a barrel ? double today?s price.
At the same time, we?re stuck with an oil-soaked energy policy that has us
using more and more ? U.S. oil consumption is expected to grow by 50% in the
next 20 years. Meanwhile, look out, because here comes China?s massive
population and supercharged economy with a growth in oil consumption seven
times greater that the U.S.! Ever-rising prices could be the least of our
problems. Since China, the U.S., and other big users will see it in their
national interest to grab as much oil as possible for themselves, we are
looking at the real possibility of global oil wars.
Shouldn?t our leaders (corporate, political, and media) be planning an
alternative path instead of continuing to consume as though there is no
tomorrow and pretending that there will always be more oil?
Lowdown, vol. 7, No. 5, May 2005
www.hightowerlowdown.org