William Lucas is a colleague at Otago Polytechnic. He teaches English to Adult migrants, and is the first social web contact I made at Otago. He and I share a serious concern for peak oil and often wonder what we should do in preparation for increasing economic and resource pressures down here in Dunedin…
William dropped off a CD copy of Robert Newman’s History of Oil today…
Now I’m recommending it to everyone here 🙂
At first, I didn’t know what to make of it… William noted that he was very funny… but at first I thought this guy wasn’t funny at all, boring, rapid fire, monotone,… what was William talking about… but I muted the useless TV (dunno why we bought that thing), put on my headphones and concentrated…
This guy is hilarious! All I had to do was tune in.. after that, I was absorbed.. and that’s a sign of a good performer in my books. But he’s more than a performer, he’s performance is a lecture, a call to action, an awakening, a very interesting point of view…
In the void that is the absence of anything sensible otherwise – Robert Newman offers very thought provoking and hard to ignore 100 mile an hour perspectives on the state of affairs in global politics, resource wars and depletion. But with a unique angle of comedy (for these topics anyway).
Well worth a watch. Up there with Zeitgeist, only better I reckon. Certainly better than the crap on your TV…
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August 29, 2007 at 11:56 pm
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[…] film in what seems to be a series of stuff I’m just happening across, such as Newman’s History of Oil and Zeitgeist. Apart from being interesting in that this BBC series seems to support in some way […]
October 13, 2007 at 5:48 pm
Steven Parker
Hi Leigh great video. I have just finiished a great book I highly recommend ‘Mobs, messiahs and Market’s’ by Bill Bonner http://www.dailyreckoning.com.au/mmm/ which ties the political and socio-economic issues with the foibles of himan nature….read the link.
Have been thinking alot about preparing peak oil and becoming sustainably but difficult to come to grips with with local land and property prices so high…hmm
Interested to see what you or William implement
October 13, 2007 at 6:00 pm
Steven Parker
wikilearner.org – How to survive peak oil and live sustainably…this would be useful on a community by community basis. I would like to see this as a wiki.