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Peak Oil

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Peak Production Follows Peak Discovery

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UK Production Profile

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Global Oil Discovery and Production

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When Is The Global Oil Peak?7

Post peak oil producers (64)

www.lastoilshock.com

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Oil producers (98)8

Exports from oil producers

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80:20 Rule The world’s giant oilfields are in steep decline

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WHERE WE GET OUR ENERGY

Source: ExxonMobile web site Transition training 2008

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If peak oil was imminent, what sorts of things would be happening as warning signs

‘the Canary in the Coal mine’?

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Why Is Oil So Important?

How Many Men Does It Take To Push a Car?

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What Do We Use Oil For?

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No Country Has Yet Decoupled Economic Growth From Energy Use

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Oceans 40,000 GtC

Vegetation about 600 GtCSoils 1600 GtC

The atmosphere holds about 750 GtC

Fossil CO2

Dead Organisms

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The Carbon Cycle16

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What Is Climate Change?17

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Is it Proven?18

What are the main problems with out of control CC?

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CO2 Levels Over the Past 60000 Years

Ron Oxburgh

381 ppm

2006

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The Urgent Need for a Response21

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Responses to Peak Oil & Climate Change

CLIMATE CHANGE

• Climate engineering• Carbon capture and

storage• International

emissions trading• Climate adaptation• Nuclear power

P O + C C =Systems Re-Think

• Planned Relocalization

• Local Resilience

• Energy Descent

Action Plan

PEAK OIL

• Burn everything!• Relaxed drilling

regulations• Biofuels• Tar sands and

non- conventional oils

• Resource nationalism

• Resource Wars

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Peak Oil & Climate ChangePeak Oil & Climate Change

CLIMATE CHANGE

(a la Stern et al.) climate engineering carbon capture and

storage tree-based carbon

offsets international

emissions trading climate adaptation improved

transportation logistics

nuclear power

PLANNED RELOCALISATION

local resilience carbon reduction consume closer to home produce closer to home play closer to home decentralised energy

infrastructure the Great Reskilling localised food local medicinal capacity local currencies Energy Descent Plans

PEAK OIL

(a la Hirsch et al.) coal to liquids gas to liquids relaxed drilling

regulations massively scaled

biofuels tar sands and non-

conventional oils resource

nationalism and stockpiling

What can be done?What can be done? GlobalGlobal

– Oil Depletion ProtocolOil Depletion Protocol

– Contraction and ConvergenceContraction and Convergence

– KyotoKyoto

NationalNational– TEQs, Cap & Share (energy rationing)TEQs, Cap & Share (energy rationing)

CommunityCommunity– Transition Towns, cities, villages, ruralTransition Towns, cities, villages, rural

PersonalPersonal– ““The work that reconnects”The work that reconnects”

– lessons from addiction counsellinglessons from addiction counselling

– getting Gaia’edgetting Gaia’ed