Faculty Presentations
Document Type
Presentation
Publication Date
4-10-2013
Disciplines
Energy Policy | Social and Cultural Anthropology
Abstract
Despite optimistic headlines, industrial humanity finds itself in a predicament of converging and increasingly intractable problems such as climate change, financial collapse, biodiversity loss, crashing fish stocks, poverty, and famine. The ability to manage this problem is hindered by increasingly unaffordable supplies of oil, the very lifeblood of our way of life. Easily extracted reserves of oil are being depleted, exports are drying up from the few remaining countries that continue to export, and net energy is declining. This presentation addresses how expectations that were developed during a period of energy abundance from 1920 to 2005 might fare when confronted with the general economic contraction and social disruption already unfolding during a period of energy scarcity.
Related Resource
Recommended Citation
Love, Thomas, ""And We Had Fun, Fun, Fun . . ." Till We Went over the Net Energy Cliff: Cultural Aspects of the Twilight of the Petroleum Age" (2013). Faculty Presentations. Presentation. Submission 1.
https://digitalcommons.linfield.edu/soanfac_pres/1
Comments
This presentation was given as part of the Linfield College Faculty Lecture Series, held at Linfield College in McMinnville, Oregon.