The federal Energy Information Administration (EIA) has released a report projecting that "World marketed energy consumption is projected to increase by 57 percent from 2004 to 2030. Total energy demand in the non-OECD countries increases by 95 percent, compared with an increase of 24 percent in the OECD countries."
What's an OECD country?
What is peak oil? How will it impact the future? How can we prepare for this challenge?
In this uncut video clip, Aaron Wissner of the Local Future Network interviews Megan Quinn Bachman of Community Service, Inc. about peak oil and the future.
We are entering the Peak Oil era. The growth of oil production is slowing, driving up oil and gasoline gas prices, firing inflation, driving unemployment, straining our global economy, and threatening to collapse our entire system. We are reaching Peak Oil and we are unprepared.
Part 1
Part 2
Megan Quinn Bachman presents "Surviving Peak Oil, Thriving in Community" from the International Conference on Peak Oil and Climate Change: Paths to Sustainability. This is part two of the presentation
Megan Quinn Bachman is the Outreach Director of Community Service and has been writing and speaking on peak oil since 2003. She serves as Master of Ceremonies for the U.S. Conferences on Peak Oil and Community Solutions in Yellow Springs, Ohio. Quinn Bachman's articles on peak oil appeared in Communities, Permaculture Activist, WellBeing, Vermont Commons, Energy Bulletin and Global Public Media. She co-wrote and co-produced the documentary, The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil. Quinn Bachman earned a degree in Diplomacy and Foreign Affairs from Miami University and studied abroad at the University of Havana in Cuba.
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