"A Crude Awakening" at City Hall
This Friday is "Film Night" at Miami City Hall (3500 Pan American Drive).
"A Crude Awakening -- The Oil Crash" is being shown from 7 to 9 pm. Admission is free. So is the popcorn. Seating is limited so please
arrive early.
Free film night is courtesy of Comm. Marc Sarnoff.
"A Crude Awakening -- The Oil Crash" is being shown from 7 to 9 pm. Admission is free. So is the popcorn. Seating is limited so please
arrive early.
Free film night is courtesy of Comm. Marc Sarnoff.
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9 Comments:
watch this movie and see how we all may be eating off a roach coach soon, one retrofitted to be pulled by a horse, probably serving roast peacock.
Ask your congresspersons why we continue to have a moratorium on the exploitation of domestic sources of oil, including oil shale reserves in the west that dwarf Saudi Arabia's proven reserves, and why we have put up barriers to import of oil from friendly countries, such as Canada?
Len Scinto:
Swlip there are many reasons why increasing domestic production is not a good alternative to our current energy crisis. Some are complicated and not easily discussed on a site like this. However, oil shale and other "coal-like" energy products have the greatest impacts on atmospheric CO2 concentrations, the easily extracted oil in coastal zones in america would do little (largely due to increasing world consumption) to either lower our fuel prices or provide long-term energy independance (likely depleted in 3-5 years), and can't in a world trade org. world be sold to Americans cheaper than on the world market. But one oil spill off South Beach could wreak economic havoc on our tourist industry. Increased CO2 and the subsequent rise in sea level will cost billions in lost property. Also increased incidence of worsening storms (Water evaporating at the equator contains a lot of energy) and loss of coral reefs add to the "cost" of increased oil use. It is getting to the time that we should use the last of the oil to develop a new energy economy and stop "more of the same". If you want to know more take my Environmental Science and Sustainabiltiy Grad Class at FIU. Good Luck to you and us all.
Good Info.....Thanks for sharing !
All I can say here is watch the movie and subscribe to National Geographic, for your kids. Then do something about it: last good movie I saw there was about "www. thinkoutsidethebottle.org" Plastic, polluting, expensive, fashionable, sure, plain drinking water..
I don't buy those anymore, or take them when offered for free in races or whatever/whenever. That's where it all starts, our own little actions.
Len:
I never would have guessed that you have a stake in environmental alarmism. Never. Would. Have. Guessed.
Leaving global warming aside, let's take the environmental effects of one oil spill. Why should we expect people in the developing world to bear the environmental costs of our lifestyle? Eh?
an oil spill in the desert is far less of a problem than one in the ocean, swlip. think about it. not to mention that he mentioned using the last of what we have to develop a new oil economy.
you got owned by Lenny
uh:
A desert? You've apparently never heard of places like Nigeria, Venezuela, and Mexico.
Len Scinto:
Hi Swlip et al.
I am not really an environmental alarmist...I consider myself a pragmatist. One major diffeerence between today and the late 19th early 20th century when our global economies (an global inequities) and petrochemical use began is that we now have a much greater understanding of how the Earth System functions. Yet this information is not generally considered in our economic, energy use, political thinking. Largely what I am saying is let's use the resources we have (oil) to start making changes now so that we don't have to be "alarmists" in the future. Anyway we can discuss this in much greater detail but probably not on a blog spot. I am going to go to the movie Friday night (at least I hope to make it) and thought i might get a beer at Scotty's afterwards...Might be a good time for a discussion...then probably an alcohol induced argument. Len
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