Approaching Oil Emergency?
If Dale Allen Pfeiffer is correct, the world will soon face a choice between driving our cars or feeding our families. Modern agriculture is heavily dependent on fossil fuels to run the equipment, fertilize the crops and kill the pests.
By EV World.Com
Jeff Rense interviews Dale Allen Pfeiffer on the approaching oil depletion crisis
December 06,2003
The topics discussed on late night talk show host Jeff Rense can very often be considered "fringe," especially when his nightly guests delve into government conspiracies, alien spacecraft and life after death. But he also is willing to occasionally invite more "mainstream" guests such as author and geologist Dale Allen Pfeiffer.
The California-based radio personality recently invited Pfeiffer to talk about the gradually growing recognition that the world is running on "empty" when it comes to its oil reserves, a view underscored this week by George Monbiot's article in The Guardian entitled, "Bottom of the Barrel".
We at EV World thought our readers would be interested in this nearly hour and a half-long interview. While we don't subscribe to everything that Rense presents nor do we agree with all of Pfeiffer's views, both do offer food-for-thought on this particular topic, at least. So, if you've got a spare hour or so, sit back and have a listen.
Also be sure to listen to Elizabeth Lowery's address during the 2003 Michelin Challenge Bibendum. To a degree, her comments echo those by Pfeiffer's
To listen to the interview, recorded last week off the Internet, click the Play Audio link at the right. You will need the END STORY
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