end of growth

Election 2011 - Praying to the Growth Fairy

re-posted from my blog - oilshockhorrorprobe

I had thought that my next post would be on the surreal lack of policy from any of the political parties in the Election addressing resource depletion and their collective failure to face the reality that "economic growth" is not returning. Before I could get around to it I read this excellent post from James Henderson at "The Standard", and so I am re-posting it here.

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New Foundation to highlight peak oil and end of growth

re-posted from my blog - oilshockhorrorprobe

When I started writing this blog over a year ago, I stated my motivation was “to probe, raise awareness, encourage informed debate, and look at community responses.” But it’s often felt like I was a lonely voice in the wilderness. How come almost no one else in New Zealand – even in the blogosphere - was commenting on peak oil and its huge economic implications for our nation? How come there was not even a nascent entity or group taking up the challenge of informing the public, and generating debate that would hopefully seep into the mainstream media? » Read more

Peak oil, recessions and the end of growth

On Tuesday I gave a presentation to Auckland University students on "Peak oil, recessions and the end of growth" » Read more

NZ Draft Energy Strategy - a charade

I read the governments Draft Energy Strategy  and discovered that apart from a bland statement that oil prices will rise and be volatile, it fails to identify the risks to New Zealand's energy security. There is no discussion in the DES about the threats to New Zealand of oil scarcity arising from global oil depletion and no analysis of the potentially devastating impacts on the New Zealand economy from scarcity and/or higher oil prices. Nor does it discuss how soon these threats might arise. For example could they occur within one year, five years, 10 years, or longer? » Read more

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