Please type up a short essay (3-5 paragraphs) on the topic of the possible collapse of our way of life. Use the Easter Island chapter, information from class (including film clips, other students' perspectives, and lecture), and your own online research.
Please be creative in the angle you bring to the essay. Don't feel that it needs to be definitive (its been a 4 day unit). You can ask questions - identify areas for further research - wonder out loud.
Some helpful websites (often with other helpful links):
Life After the Oil Crash
Peak Oil Primer
Community Solutions
Limits to Growth - Oil - This is annoying but a good mix of visual/text/audio
Online Video - From ABC Australia - mainstream (quote skeptics and oil company employees and high quality video) but also quotes peak experts
The Oil We Eat - A good essay (from 2004) on the links between fossil fuels and industrial food.
Several people (incl. Kyle and Ben) have remarked on the likelihood of increased geopolitical conflict in the age of peak oil. Here's a piece of recent news from Peru.
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