tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8120982399236985142.post9192630755528473338..comments2024-02-07T06:48:23.474-05:00Comments on Sudbury Steve May: The Alberta Tar Sands and Global SecuritySudbury Stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03959184192546029807noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8120982399236985142.post-62899235790382076722010-11-17T09:18:23.964-05:002010-11-17T09:18:23.964-05:00hello there thanks for your grat post, as usual (...hello there thanks for your grat post, as usual ((o:Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8120982399236985142.post-37866284979096675132010-11-10T08:31:05.035-05:002010-11-10T08:31:05.035-05:00MOS, I agree we need a holistic approach that deal...MOS, I agree we need a holistic approach that deals with all these dangers at once but how it can be achieved when people are so dumb and lazy that they can't stay focused enough to learn about one issue at a time.<br /><br />The ignorance on these issues is so vast even when there are dozens of movies out there flogging the issue. I'd be surprised if %25 of supposedly educated people know what Peak oil is yet.<br /><br />I fear the only answer is a big virulent plagueGABnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8120982399236985142.post-5525670675646373232010-11-10T08:05:00.873-05:002010-11-10T08:05:00.873-05:00Not to mention that with increasing natural gas sc...Not to mention that with increasing natural gas scarcity, they simply won't have the fuel they need to extract the 'oil' from the tar sands.Vanessahttp://www.vanessalong.canoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8120982399236985142.post-45391534772652897252010-11-09T21:31:16.603-05:002010-11-09T21:31:16.603-05:00Actually the IEA report warns that the global dema...Actually the IEA report warns that the global demand for oil through 2035 ensures that we don't have a hope in hell of meeting our 2 degree celsius objective. Grist.com has a good review of that report.<br /><br />What I find especially troubling, Steve, is how we keep isolating the greenhouse gas/AGW issue rather than deal with it in the context of the host of associated issues including desertification, deforestation, species extinction, resource depletion and exhaustion, air/soil/water contamination, overpopulation,<br />climate migration, sea level rise, nuclear proliferation, terrorism and other global security threats.<br /><br />Isolating these problems leads to finger pointing and the pursuit of conflicting national objectives in what is truly a global threat requiring global action.<br /><br />There is a universality that forms the common thread running through all of these threats and we have to view them as inter-related and global in their dimension as well as their solution.<br /><br />We simply can't solve the core problem with 18th century economics, 19th century industrialism and 20th century geopolitics. Yet we steadfastly refuse to budge.<br /><br />Good luck.The Mound of Soundhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.com