A Crude Awakening: The Oil Crash.A Crude Awakening: The Oil Crash written and directed by Basil Gelpke, Ray McCormack It's quite possible that the grandchildren GRANDCHILDREN, domestic relations. The children of one's children. Sometimes these may claim bequests given in a will to children, though in general they can make no such claim. 6 Co. 16. of almost all people under 25 will never fly in an aeroplane. Why? Because aviation fuel comes from oil, and the oil won't last that long. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Who says so? The panoply pan·o·ply n. pl. pan·o·plies 1. A splendid or striking array: a panoply of colorful flags. See Synonyms at display. 2. of academics, scientists and oil-industry big guns interviewed in this film. They tell us: that oil discovery has already peaked and oil production will peak, as it already has in the US and the North Sea. That estimates of reserves are largely guesstimates and often dishonest for marketing and political reasons. That alternatives like coal and uranium will also quickly run out. That renewable energy Renewable energy utilizes natural resources such as sunlight, wind, tides and geothermal heat, which are naturally replenished. Renewable energy technologies range from solar power, wind power, and hydroelectricity to biomass and biofuels for transportation. cannot support the lifestyle of the industrialized in·dus·tri·al·ize v. in·dus·tri·al·ized, in·dus·tri·al·iz·ing, in·dus·tri·al·iz·es v.tr. 1. To develop industry in (a country or society, for example). 2. world. The film-makers concentrate on the US, where the Government is doing nothing to scale down use of oil. What is the alternative? Resource wars to grab hold of the remaining non-renewables. This is a vivid and very sobering so·ber adj. so·ber·er, so·ber·est 1. Habitually abstemious in the use of alcoholic liquors or drugs; temperate. 2. Not intoxicated or affected by the use of drugs. 3. documentary. See it! VERY GOOD ML mixedmedia@newint.org REVIEWS EDITOR: Vanessa Baird email: vanessab@newint.org REVIEWERS: Louise Gray, Horatio Morpurgo, Malcolm Lewis, Peter Whittaker |
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