by Russel Norman
Driven by Gerry Brownlee’s overweening obsession with oil exploration, informed by the reality of the oil well that spewed millions of litres of oil into the Timor Sea, and inspired by Cows with Guns, I thought it would be good to post the Ship video by John Clarke. Gerry thinks the environment stops where you can’t see it anymore – but Clarke can explain…
Published in Environment & Resource Management by Russel Norman on Tue, December 8th, 2009
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on the trolls and those who are unable to keep on topic
Classic, the problem with John Clarke pieces is you need a good break between them as they are all exactly the same..!
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So Russ, should we ignore the wealth and leave the oil in the ground?
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I’m moving all the off topic stuff into the latest general debate thread. You can troll one another in there
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How is asking Russ if he would ignore the wealth trolling ?
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Do you leave any money in your savings account BB? Oil will only either appreciate in value or be superceded by better energy sources. Future generations will be able to utilise it far more wisely than we do now.
Imagine if our forebears had burned all the coal in steam engines that were less than 10% energy efficient. We’d have nothing to burn in our 30% energy efficient coal power stations. Why the hurry to dig the “wealth” up and cash it in?
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Do you leave any money in your savings account BB? Oil will only either appreciate in value or be superceded by better energy sources. Future generations will be able to utilise it far more wisely than we do now.
Russ could make it clear if that’s why he’s rather vaguely not keen on it.
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a) Climate Change
b) Peak Oil
c) the addiction to paying rent on money created out thin air by foriegn entities.
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