Well, it's Green Week at MSU. Not that anyone would know, since it didn't show in The State News this week. Or possibly care, for that matter, folks are already rolling their eyes at the word green.
(Which is interesting. I talked to the organizer of Green Week, an amiable fella named Phil, who said he spoke at length with the campus editor LAST week [it's Thursday now]. She planned on putting it in Tuesday's paper, told Phil it got bumped, and we're still yet to see it. Maybe we'll see it in next week's paper when it's over. Figures. When it's over....)
Anyway, Green Week put on the most disturbing documentary I've ever seen, on Wednesday at Wells Hall.
"A Crude Awakening - The Oil Crash" was a devastating shot to humanity - or any humans that have a slight sense of the word humanity.
As the movie pointed out, we're fast approaching, if not already at, the top of Hubbert's Peak (a.k.a. peak oil.)
Humanity's been looking up, ascending the energy mountain for over a hundred years. It's time we start our descent, the film says.
An attorney put it in these terms: in the 1950s, if you told an American that Kennedy would get us on the moon in 10 years, they would have thought you crazy. At this point, fixing the oil crisis would be like telling people in the '50s we'd colonize Pluto in 10 years.
Jesus.
Oil gives life to nearly everything humans do, make and want. It shapes foreign policy, causing wars.
And we Americans are at the heart of it - buying Hummers, consuming 1/4 of the Earth's oil (America is 1/22 of the world's population.), generally not giving a shit as we commute from our suburbs 30 miles to the city.
Hybrid cars, wind power, biomass, corn-based ethanol. They're either a drop in the bucket or an even worse solution. Solar energy was the only realistic solution touched upon, joined with all these other methods, that could replace oil dependence.
I've been an utter downer since watching this movie - considering everything I do from eating to typing up this blog.
Perhaps that was the goal of the film - to get our asses in gear.
1 comment:
Hey man. If you have any information about that oil film you mentioned, I'd like to see it. Thanks for that post.
Also, I was wondering why all of those other options outside of solar energy are considered so bad. Do you have any information that talks about the pros and cons of these "solutions"? Let me know.
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