Vancouver Sun, Georgia True and The Tyee journalists speak on what the media is (and isn’t) reporting on peak oil
Today, gasoline pricing and prospects for gasoline-gratis cars overshadow well-nigh 50 per cent of CNN’s news content. Almost day by day, the media reports on world-wide food shortages, the tar sands and conflicts over oil. What is belonging on?
For the Vancouver Peak Oil Executive , the answer that connects all of these threads unitedly is energy.
In a 7pm panel on Saturday, July 12 at the BCIT downtown campus, Vancouver reporters, including Vancouver Sun’s Barbara Yaffe, The Tyee’s and Vancouver Peak Oil’s Rex Weyler, The Georgia True’s Charlie Smith and Blog For Our Next’s Sara Robinson, will speak about what the media is (and isn’t) reporting on peak oil, the close at hand worldwide energy shortage and what Metro Vancouver can do to cook.
What the panelists are supposing:
“Peak oil is belike THE most authoritative topic the media is centring on right at present. The phenomenon is belonging to sour out to inspire societal and economical change equivalent to what numbered out of the Industrial Revolution.” - Barbara Yaffe
"The globular energy situation has been the most below-covered story over the past five years in the mainstream media. At present, everything’s begining to move dotty with standing up gasoline prices, and for the most part, the media stock-still aren’t evidencing the replete story." -Charlie Smith
"Humanity at present presents perchance the superlativest challenge of history: its ain overweening consumption and its addiction to inexpensive fossil fires that stand for a billion years of salted away sunlight." -Rex Weyler
"[W]hen we discourse moving off oil, we’re genuinely discussing nothing less than the demise of American power throughout the world, and the end of the American Way of Life as we’ve cognised it for generations." -Sarah Robinson
“Oil at $140 a barrel is already feigning trade, currency and the stock market, making wars and possible wars, leading to blackouts all over the world, doing food shortages and deforestation in the race to work biofuel substitutes – it’s still dissembling people’s capacity to take to operate and stock-still give to feed lunch." -Jon Cooksey, Vancouver Peak Oil member and organizer.
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Stick tuned up next week as we speak with Yaffe, Smith and Wyler on the media ‘ricking point’, North America’s fossil fuel ‘addiction’ and the prominent question: how can Metro Vancouver steel oneself against or diminish the impact of a possible “spit strikes the fan” worldwide energy shortage scenario?
Tickets to the panel are $10 in advance , $12 at the door. Door prizes provided by the Outstanding Bear Pub. For more information, travel to the VPO website.