Peak Oil and a Changing Climate

The Nation is running an very interesting (and disturbing, sorry!) online video interview series called Peak Oil and a Changing Climate:

Bill McKibben, Noam Chomsky, Nicole Foss, Richard Heinberg and the other scientists, researchers and writers interviewed throughout “Peak Oil and a Changing Climate” describe the diminishing returns our world can expect as it deals with the consequences of peak oil even as it continues to pretend it doesn’t exist. These experts predict substantially increased transportation costs, decreased industrial production, unemployment, hunger and social chaos as the supplies of the fuels on which we rely dwindle and eventually disappear.

With recent interviews including the likes of Lester Brown and Joel Salatin talking about food, this series is definitely worth a perusal. Here's a (troubling, yikes!) money quote:

"Probably the best place to be in this situation [economic collapse precipitated by peak oil and a changing climate] would be on a subsistence farm in a village in Sub-Saharan Africa or someplace that's not much effected by what happens in the rest of the world. I think most people don't realize how vulnerable we are. For example, the food supply in the average city in the United States, if it's not daily renewed, would run out in about 3 days. There's not much of a buffer there. The system can come apart pretty fast." -Lester Brown, "The Planet's Scarcest Resource is Time," March 22, 2011.