OscailtPeak Oil, Climate Change Leaflet TextA leaflet put together by Cork Shell to Sea in response to Peak Oil conference in Cork City today
Breaking news: Italian MP, Sgarbi denounces the Statistical Fraud on COVID-19. The speech of the Member of Parliament Vittorio Sgarbi in the session of the Italian Camera, Meeting no. 331 of Friday 24, April, 2020. Vittorio Sgarbi, denounces the closure of 60% of the businesses for 25,000 COVID-19 Deaths, of which the National Institute of Health says 96.3% died NOT of COVID-19 but of other pathologies. That means only 925 have died of the virus. 24,075 have died of other things.2007-09-18T11:41:58+00:00Indymedia Irelandimc-ireland@lists.indymedia.iehttp://www.indymedia.ie/atomfullposts?story_id=84260http://www.indymedia.ie/graphics/feedlogo.gifASPO websitehttp://www.indymedia.ie/article/84260#comment2072802007-09-18T11:41:58+00:00JohnAssociation for the Study of Peak Oil website is www.peakoil.ie, you can find in...Association for the Study of Peak Oil website is www.peakoil.ie, you can find info on the conference here too.fighting peak oil..local and global action...learning from Cubahttp://www.indymedia.ie/article/84260#comment2073042007-09-18T18:08:12+00:00dunkfuspey at yahoo dot co dot ukactive peak oil action ongoing in dublin: 3rd time lucky for community garden in...active peak oil action ongoing in dublin: 3rd time lucky for community garden in Dublin 8?.... article about the new green space in the heart of Dublin city<br />
<a href="http://indymedia.ie/article/84268" title="http://indymedia.ie/article/84268">http://indymedia.ie/article/84268</a><br />
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also on the wider, more global aspect:<br />
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Climate camp(s) 2008 and beyond...london, germany, oz, barcelona, ireland.........<br />
<a href="http://indymedia.ie/article/83826#comment205499" title="http://indymedia.ie/article/83826#comment205499">http://indymedia.ie/article/83826#comment205499</a><br />
"What would it mean to win?" : a report after participating in the recent climate camp in London and exploring ideas on what a future sustainable society would look like and how we can get there....<br />
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Thanks to John and all the rest for bringing the issue of peak oil to the fore of discussion, it is the most critical, if we dont adress it we die. but there are solutions, as was shown when Cuba survived its own "special period" or peak oil period...<br />
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The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil<br />
<a href="http://www.powerofcommunity.org/cm/index.php" title="http://www.powerofcommunity.org/cm/index.php">http://www.powerofcommunity.org/cm/index.php</a><br />
learn more and order film<br />
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The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil<br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VHt5QchfdQ" title="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VHt5QchfdQ">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VHt5QchfdQ</a><br />
Cubans share how they transitioned from a highly mechanized, industrial agricultural system to one using organic methods of farming and local, urban gardens aftger they lost global support in the early 1990's.<br />
1 minute trailer<br />
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Learning from Cuba's Response to Peak Oil<br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7i6roVB5MI" title="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7i6roVB5MI">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7i6roVB5MI</a><br />
Peak Moment #27: Megan Quinn of The Community Solution discusses her visit to Cuba, and the movie "The Power of Community". This young woman sees Peak Oil as an opportunity to create the communities we want, but notes that we must reduce our consumption despite environmentalists' assurances that biofuels will save us.<br />
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and lastly an essay about what a future sustainable community would look like..."its not an option, its what were going to have to turn to, to survive"<br />
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THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE GLOBAL ECOVILLAGE MOVEMENT<br />
<a href="http://ssis.arts.unsw.edu.au/tsw/" title="http://ssis.arts.unsw.edu.au/tsw/">http://ssis.arts.unsw.edu.au/tsw/</a>Some brief thoughts on yesterday's proceedingshttp://www.indymedia.ie/article/84260#comment2073822007-09-19T16:43:56+00:00Raycorkshelltosea at gmail dot comAlthough we didn't get into the conference we leafleted the attendance outside a...Although we didn't get into the conference we leafleted the attendance outside and engaged some of the attendees in conversation/debate about the issues (many) surrounding the Peak Oil debate. These encounters were for the most part friendly and open, but the corporate types tended to keep their heads down and walk past us. Minor garda hassle was experienced - seeking to get names etc. which they well know already. Low cop presence overall esp. compared to last year's conference held in Italy, the venue of which one serial attendee at these events told us was ringed with carabinieri and security fencing.<br />
The first day was mostly about the view from inside the oil industry. Unfortunately by a strategy of them distributing no printed information the first day's proceedings will remain rather opaque to outsiders until ASPO releases their DVD of the event. We did pick up some titbits of info but there's no point in us passing them on as we can't really substantiate anything. It would be really helpful (not to mention democratic) if one of the attendees could contribute to this thread and give the wider world a precis of what was discussed and confirm data that would be of use to those of us trying to understand the scale of the fix we're in.<br />
Day two focussed on the wider economic social and political implications of oil and gas depletion. There appears to have been lively and sometimes animated debate, with a clear divide between the concerns of the corporate sector (who seem worried only about their own survival) and those of the community and voluntary sector, whose concerns are more focussed on helping as many people as possible make it through the transition. A major disappointment was the failure of one of the more interesting speakers, a Dr. Curbelo from Cuba, to make the conference. A first-hand report from the only country so far to have undergone a power-down from fossil fuel would have a great loss to the proceedings. In fairness to ASPO, the second day brought together a fine collection of activists from many corners and were we in there I'm sure we'd have enjoyed the proceedings.<br />
We also managed to tell the Shell to Sea story-so-far to as many who would listen, though there was one tetchy encounter with one attendee who (sincerely!?) believes that you have to be completely conversant with all technical details involved and be a recognised expert (like himself I suppose) before you can object to never mind stop, the oil industry destroying communities and the environment. He walked off like a thwarted hero when it was put to him that such a viewpoint was elitist, unreasonable, impractical, and a straw man in the argument. It was momentarily upsetting to be reminded of the conceit of some who profess to be either respected researchers or community activists, but it should not draw away from the positive engagements we had outside City Hall.<br />
Special thanks to Ed Moran who made it down from Erris to attend both days of the conference, and we'll be looking forward to his report and reminiscences of what transpired. He was a busy man in there I believe, getting the Erris experience to as many folks as he could collar. Without him, the campaign would have had no-one in there listening, never mind contributing.<br />
All in all it was a worthwhile thing to engage with this conference - for if it were up to our public misrepresentatives there would have been no mention at all of what is being done in Mayo today in the name of so-called 'energy security'. Oh, and Eamon Ryan came up to us at the end of it all either pretending or wanting to remain friends with the campaign. To tell the truth, we were as gobsmacked by this as Eamon's garda special branch minder! Oh you should have seen the political cop's face!Re: Some brief thoughts on yesterday's proceedingshttp://www.indymedia.ie/article/84260#comment2073932007-09-19T18:25:15+00:00TerenceThere is some coverage and summaries of what is being said at the conference eac...There is some coverage and summaries of what is being said at the conference each day over on The Oildrum.com website, as some of the various writers on that site are not only attending but presenting papers.<br />
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See for example:<br />
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<strong>The ASPO Conference -First Morning</strong><br />
<a href="http://www.theoildrum.com/node/2991" title="http://www.theoildrum.com/node/2991">http://www.theoildrum.com/node/2991</a><br />
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<strong>The ASPO Conference - First Afternoon</strong><br />
<a href="http://www.theoildrum.com/node/2993" title="http://www.theoildrum.com/node/2993">http://www.theoildrum.com/node/2993</a><br />
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FYI, The Oildrum.com website has been going for about 2 or 3 years and does very high quality discussions of all things related to Peak Oil.<br />
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Good summary of Cork Peak Oil Conferencehttp://www.indymedia.ie/article/84260#comment2081672007-09-28T14:33:49+00:00atomisedAt the linkAt the link