What is peak oil? How will it impact the future?
How can we prepare for this challenge?
In this uncut video clip, Aaron Wissner of the
Local Future Network interviews Megan Quinn Bachman of Community Service, Inc.
about peak oil and the future.
We are entering the Peak Oil era. The growth of
oil production is slowing, driving up oil and gasoline gas prices, firing
inflation, driving unemployment, straining our global economy, and threatening
to collapse our entire system. We are reaching Peak Oil and we are unprepared.
Background
Megan Quinn Bachman is the Outreach Director
of The Community Solution. She has been writing and speaking on Peak Oil and
community-based solutions for more than
four years.
She helped to organize and served as master of ceremonies for the four annual
U.S. Conferences on Peak Oil and Community Solutions, which brought more than
900 participants to Yellow Springs, Ohio. She also was the Master of Ceremonies
at the Peak Oil and the Environment Conference held in Washington D.C. in May
2006.
Her articles on peak oil have appeared in various newspapers and magazines,
including Communities, Permaculture Activist, Vermont Commons, Kindred and
WellBeing. Megan co-wrote and co-produced her organization's award-winning
documentary, The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil (2006).
Megan graduated with a degree in Diplomacy and Foreign Affairs from Miami
University in Oxford, Ohio, where she studied Peak Oil and its implications for
U.S. Foreign Policy. She has also studied in Europe at Miami's campus in
Luxembourg and at the University of Havana in Cuba.