The Petrocollapse Conference
Petrocollapse: Social Isolation or Solidarity?
May 6, 2006 conference in Washington, DC
Contact: Jan Lundberg
(215) 243-3144
or: Jenna Orkin, Moderator
(718) 246-1577
DC Petrocollapse Conference: May 6, 2006
All Souls Church, Unitarian - 16th & Harvard, Washington, D.C - 9 A.M. - 7 P.M
(Includes evening Jamming with Peak Oil Experts Richard Heinberg, Jan Lundberg and more)
Author Richard Heinberg and other experts on the effects of peak oil and the growing global energy crisis will discuss "petrocollapse," the imminent failure of the petroleum infrastructure to continue to provide the myriad goods and services that our consumer economy has grown accustomed to. Multimedia presentations and experts in small-scale agriculture will suggest solutions. Evening Jamming will take place from 5 P.M. - 7. P.M. with Heinberg, Lundberg and other experts performing rock, folk and satirical oil songs.
Conference organizer and speaker Jan Lundberg is a former oil industry analyst who ran the market research firm Lundberg Survey. Lundberg, who quit serving the oil industry so he could put his knowledge to use to protect the environment, says "M. King Hubbert, who developed the theory of peak oil, observed that we do not have an energy crisis but rather a culture crisis. This fits with the theme of the Washington DC Petrocollapse Conference that there is no technofix for our energy dilemma. Society will have to bring about a closer level of community and rediscover what local economics are about."
Films include premieres of "Our Synthetic Sea" (plastics pollution in oceans) and "The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil."
The Petrocollapse Conference will address the question: "What we can do to prepare for or mitigate the social upheaval and chaos that may produce a ‘national New Orleans?' What will the future look like during and after a transition to non-petroleum living?"
For more information, see www.petrocollapse.org