If the peak oil balloon really is going up, we should expect to see world leaders, politicians, business chiefs and the mainstream media in general realizing and admitting that something new is happening. But are we really at the tipping point for peak oil? Julian Darley answers: Yes, no and maybe.
Yes! magazine counters mainstream media by giving us stories of people creating sustainable, just and positive futures. Executive Editor, Sarah Van Gelder discusses healthcare for all, alternatives to prisons, peak oil, living democracy, climate change, working together, and how each of us can begin creating change. Episode 42.
Senior Fellowist & Linguist and UC Berkeley, Rockridge Institute, works to raise awareness of the importance of framing issues and to help progressives proactively re-frame the debate.
despite the fact that we live in a country with the most radical administration in my memory, possibly in American history, our watchdog media continues to sleep. With the glaring exception of the New York Times, bless their hearts, the media has responded to these developments in the U.S. with a limp and even fawning journalism. The White House press corps dutifully waits each time when Bush deigns to appear before them, to be called upon in order, the order that he has chosen, with the responses that he has prepared. And they lapsed into a cowardly silence when veteran White House reporter Helen Thomas dared to speak up and called President Bush the worst president in U.S. history.
Well, I think oil will get dearer and I think people who are able to pay for it will pay for it. I think the effect on the west will be slower than the effect on the developing world. And I would have thought that there would also be, I mean, that there would also be developments which would move the consumer, particularly in western societies, toward energies which were less dependent upon oil as oil became more and more expensive. But you have to realize as well that oil in this country for example is substantially cheaper than almost any other comparable form of energy, so oil has got a very very long way to go before people are put off by rising price.
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