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Post Carbon Institute Fellow Brian Schwartz was interviewed about Peak Oil by social action network site Take Part's Salvatore Cardoni.
From the interview:
Q. What are the top three challenges that impede making progress on solutions that will help lessen the negative impact of peak oil?
A. I like to think about how we will experience peak oil the way James Howard Kunstler and others have referred to the “long emergency.” Energy prices in the future are going to be much higher than they are now. We will experience cycles of rising energy prices, followed by impacts on economies; the resulting economic downturns will reduce energy demand, resulting in a decline in energy prices; this will allow economic recovery and then the cycle will start again.
I believe the top three challenges to making progress on solutions are: 1) a lack of public and policy maker knowledge on these issues, and strong resistance to understanding and believing that such a profound threat to everything that many of us hold so dear--our big houses, automobile-centered lifestyles, frequent air travel, access to consumer goods from around the world-- is close at hand; 2) very strong vested interests that will oppose changes in their industries and how they do business; and 3) our amazing lack of preparation for what we are facing, after investing in a built environment, food production system, transportation system, and overall economy that is so heavily reliant on cheap and plentiful oil.
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