A seven minute CNBC newscast featuring an unusually pessimistic Matt Simmons. The looks on their faces is classic, a recognition of a plausible threat and genuine fear of the consequences of Peak Oil.

Check out 4:35 where a really horrendous scenario is presented.

We're wasting so much time going on a witchhunt trying to find out who got the prices so high. What we ought to be doing is doing our homework for what we didn't learn in the last decade - the fact that we were giving oil away and it's still cheap. It's going to go higher, it might go way higher.
- Matt Simmons

It's getting quite obvious that we are not looking at a bubble and that speculation is not what is driving the oil price. We're facing a "surplus demand". Looking at it as a supply deficit is ridiculous.

A well made animation by José Tapia that explains what Global Climate Change is, what it is doing and will do, and finally what we can do to prevent more damage to the one planet we call home.

Very well made documentary including Michael Meacher (Former UK Environment Minister), Colin Campbell, Richard Heinberg and others. It touches upon the energy crisis in the 70's and how we totally ignored the problems during the 80's, 90's and this century as well.

The documentary also paints a dim picture for our economy. The economy is currently based upon "steady growth" which we will no longer be able to sustain. That will be a serious problem for each and everyone of us.

Of course one would have expect the politicians across the world to have begun to get together to talk about the implications and what each of them needs to do in order to deal with this threat. I suspect the reason that doesn't happen is because the United States, far and away the most powerful country of the world, has decided that it doesn't want to convene an international conference to discuss how it's going to be shared out.

What they have decided to do, pretty clearly from invading Iraq and trying to control oil from the Caspian basin, which is the second largest repository of oil that is left in the world, is to try to monopolize for themselves, the supply of this oil, because oil is power.
- Michael Meacher

Peak Oil is the event of our lifetime.
- Richard Heinberg

Read more at http://oilsmokeandmirrors.com.

This video contains a presentation by Dr. Albert A. Bartlett. It is the best presentation we've seen so far about why the world is in such a bad state. It ties in the mathematical concept of the exponential function (compound interest for example) to explain what is going on.

Many call this video "the most important video you will ever see" and we agree with them. Everyone on the planet should see and understand this video.

Al Gore speaks at TED. Great video comparing Earth and Venus and why carbon dioxide is a real problem. He also speaks about us being a generation that can rise to the occasion, to tackle the Global Climate Change, and that we should do it with joy and pride.

Earth and Venus are exactly the same size [...] and have exactly the same amount of carbon. The difference is on Earth most of the carbon has been leached over time out of the atmosphere, deposited in the ground as coal, oil, natural gas etc. On Venus most of it is in the atmosphere. The difference is that our temperature is 59 F degrees on average, on Venus it's 855 F. This is relevant to our current strategy of taking as much carbon out of the ground as quickly as possible and putting it into the atmosphere.

A one minute long cartoon about our oil usage history in cars, fun!

Teacher Aaron Wissner, in a compact 10 minutes video summary, details Peak Oil, the evidence, the impacts, and the solutions. See the full one-hour video at LocalFuture.org.

We, every single one of us are dependent on an unsustainable failed global system, providing for all of our needs. Providing food, energy shelter. All these things. And this system is failing because it is based entirely on huge ever growing quantities of oil.