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SERIOUS AND FUNNY ...
Videos on Energy, Peak Oil & Resilience
This list of serious and funny videos about energy, peak oil, and resilience includes videos on alternative energy, the oil industry, gas prices, fossil fuel dependence, depletion, the relationship between energy and money, peak oil solutions, and more.
See the rightmost column for additional categories of videos related to energy and peak oil.
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VIDEOS ABOUT PEAK OIL, ENERGY & RESILIENCE
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PETROLIFY
This clever satire from the Post Carbon Institute uses the overhyped approach of the pharmaceutical industry to poke fun at our modern petro-culture. Watch funny energy video.
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PETROTHEISM AND DOMINION
Mark Fiore returns to the petrotheism theme to explore how the US public worships oil and how some politicians justify ravaging the earth for more of the black gold. Watch oil as religion funny video.
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300 YEARS OF FOSSIL FUELS IN 300 SECONDS
This is a marvelous animated summary of how we arrived at the historical point of "peak everything"—and what we might do about such a predicament. Narrated by Richard Heinberg. Watch fossil fuels video.
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ROBERT NEWMAN’S HISTORY OF OIL
Rob Newman, the "Peak Oil Comic," offers a funny standup routine, interspersed with graphics and photos, that walks us through the similarities between history and the present, showing the clear intersection between energy, military strategies, and empires. Watch funny peak oil video.
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THE POST-OIL MAN
This cool animation features a peak-oil prognosticator explaining the coming energy apocalypse and why failing to prepare is a recipe for personal doom. From James W. Johnson via YouTube.
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OIL SUPPLIES? DON'T WORRY! — When it comes to Peak Oil, who ya gonna believe—egg-head geologists or fast-talking economists and stock analysts? The fast-talkers, of course! This amusing satire does a nice job of skewering the all-too-easy answers Peak Oil skeptics usually throw around. From Randy Park via YouTube.
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PEAK OIL COMIC
Peak Oil is no joke ... but comedian Rob Newman has still figured out how to get a few laughs out of it while delivering the message. Via YouTube.
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DRILL, BABY, DRILL!
A wild-eyed poke at the oil-drilling frenzy currently in vogue among our Washington officials. (Somehow they failed to get the memo that we can't drill our way out of our oil-addiction problem.) Funny stuff from animator Mark Fiore. Go there
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OIL ANTHEM
Ace animator Mark Fiore strikes black gold with his musical rendering of the oil industry's insistence that it continues receiving taxpayer subsidies in spite of record profits. Watch funny oil subsidies video.
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LITTLE GREEN MAN / THE PETRO PEOPLE
Even before the disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, there are some pretty interesting observations that can be made about we, the people of the petroleum era. Funny stuff from Mark Fiore. Watch funny oil video/animation.
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VIDEOS ABOUT PEAK OIL, ENERGY & RESILIENCE
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RESOURCES, BIOLOGY, PSYCHOLOGY, AND THE END OF GROWTH
When we get down to first principles in economics, biology, energy, and human behavior, we see that constraints on resources, environment, and debt capacity pose an imminent threat to the economic juggernaut that has brought unparalleled prosperity to so many. Watch peak oil / end of growth video.
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DON’T WORRY, DRIVE ON
As the fracking-driven boom in US oil and natural gas production spews on, the mainstream media seems full of assertions that peak oil is a worry of the past. But it ain't so, Joe... as Richard Heinberg explains here, alongside some very snappy animated graphics. Watch fracking and peak oil video.
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ROB HOPKINS: MY TOWN IN TRANSITION
It turns out that people mostly like participating in transition and relocalization efforts not for environmental, economic, or energy reasons, but because they like getting to know and working with their neighbors and community members. Watch transition town video.
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THE EARTH IS FULL
We have filled up the world with ourselves and our stuff. Paul Gilding explains why it's delusional to think that we can continue our pattern of never-ending growth in finance, population, energy, food, water, and pollution. Watch unsustainable trends video.
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THERE’S NO TOMORROW
This animated documentary explains resource depletion, economic issues, environmental problems, and the linkages between them. It is a brief but comprehensive overview of "peak everything." The film also explains how you can get ahead of the curve. Watch or read a full review of this excellent peak everything video.
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YOU ARE HERE — THE OIL JOURNEY PRESENTATION
Though we have all become hooked on the technological and societal benefits of the cheap-energy age, that age is unavoidably about to end. In this good presentation on the peak-oil problem, we first see the proof, then we get a few thoughts on how we might navigate the transition.
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WHO KILLED ECONOMIC GROWTH?
Richard Heinberg and top animators have put together a very cool short video about the unavoidable end of the infinite growth paradigm. Watch video on infinite growth.
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THE CRASH COURSE
The Crash Course is a 20-part series of free video clips that explains what's going on with debt and the money system, but also relates the financial crisis to peaking energy supplies and resource scarcity. Chris Martenson does a masterful job of making dry but important concepts easily understandable. The animated graphs and other features, combined with the clear explanations in the voiceovers, make this one of the best presentations we've ever seen. We highly recommend it to anyone who wants to understand the financial meltdown in the larger context of debt and constrained energy supplies—and who wants to better understand the approaching storm. Go there
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Videos on Financial System, Empire, Elites
Videos on Mining & Coal
Videos on Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Waste
Videos on Transportation, Vehicles, Mass Transit, Sprawl
Videos on All Topics
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Resources for Air Pollution
Resources for Energy Issues
Resources for Peak Oil
Resources for Suburban Sprawl
Resources for Vehicles & Transportation
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CATEGORY: ENERGY, PEAK OIL — 05.FEB.2015
Sea Change Radio
The Latest Oil Glut—Once Bitten, Twice Shy —
It comes as little surprise that the author of a book entitled Snake Oil: How Fracking's False Promise of Plenty Imperils Our Future is a critic of the natural gas industry and a proponent of peak oil theory. Host Alex Wise reviews the issues with Richard Heinberg of the Post Carbon Institute and gets his perspective on how plunging oil prices will affect the energy and transportation industries; the status of the North American natural gas boom; how the turbulence may alter consumer behavior in the near term; and the need for sound policy to guide us through the long-term challenge of living in a post-carbon world.
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Original Show Pub Date: 27.Jan.2015
CATEGORY: COLLAPSE — 10.FEB.2015
C-Realm Podcast
Twilight's Reach —
KMO and John Michael Greer talk about the two novels Greer published last year. The first is Twilight's Last Gleaming, a geo-political thriller where a declining United States and a resurgent China come to the brink of all-out nuclear war. The other novel is Star's Reach: A Novel of the Deindustrial Future, which is set in a world shaped by the exhaustion of fossil fuels, where new social forms have replaced our familiar institutions and where new ways of inhabiting the North American continent have been necessitated by centuries of climate change.
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Original Show Pub Date: 04.Feb.2015
CATEGORY: ENERGY — 21.JAN.2015
Radio EcoShock / Legalise Freedom
A "Renewable World" Built on Fossil Fuels is Not a Renewable World —
The message for green-energy lovers and haters alike is simple: We can't keep this crazy civilization running just on the sun and wind, let alone on high doses of fossil fuels. When we stop being able to milk the billion year-pile of concentrated solar energy in the form of oil, gas, and coal, something WILL change. Energy expert David Fridley of the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab and the Post Carbon Institute talks about the energy dilemma, diving deep into the specifics. Topics/points include ... Our energy matrix cannot be renewable until the renewable-energy technologies and sources can replicate themselves. Wind turbines, solar panels, and electric cars are all hobbled by the limitations of fossil fuel inputs for their creation and maintenance as well as by the specialized minerals needed for their creation. He acknowledges the psychology of the American energy consumer as a key problem, referencing former Energy Department Secretary James Schlesinger's axiom
that the American people only have two modes: complacency or panic.
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Original Show Pub Date: 14.Jan.2015 ~~ Original story title: Green Dreams - Future or Fantasy?
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ABOUT ENERGY, PEAK OIL, ALTERNATIVE ENERGY, GAS PRICES, FOSSIL FUELS, ENERGY SOLUTIONS, MORE
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SOLAR DIRTY, COAL CLEAN!
In this funny video/animation, Mark Fiore (satirically) explains the dangers of solar and wind energy and the advantages of "clean coal." Dirty is the new clean! Watch funny clean coal video.
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JOHN OLIVER ON ALTERNATIVE ENERGY
A funny 2-minute bit of standup from John Oliver on energy. (PG warning: This bit has a razor edge, and there are a couple of expletives un-deleted, but it's funny enough to feature it....)
Watch funny energy video.
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SOURCES WARN MILEY CYRUS WILL BE DEPLETED BY 2013
This funny video from the Onion Newsroom takes aim at the pop-culture machine using a resource depletion angle—quite clever.
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COLBERT PLATINUM — WEALTH UNDER SIEGE
As civilization teeters on the brink, the resilience-minded among us are installing solar panels, harvesting rainwater, and planting gardens. The uber-wealthy have different options, as Stephen Colbert explains in this funny collapse/bug-out video.
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GIVING IRAQ THE BIRD OVER OIL FORTUNE
A brilliant bit of satire from two British comedians named Bird & Fortune about the Iraq war, control of Iraqi oil, and (shhh!) permanent American military bases there. Via YouTube. Go there
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PETROTHEISM
This is an oldie but a goodie from animation ace Mark Fiore. Rising gas prices, public resistance to reality-based change, and our government's inane policies are all still factors today in our continuing worship of oil. No longer available from host site.
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RUNNING ON EMPTY
Winter, summer, or European—make your vacation an energy vacation! Animated cartoon from Mark Fiore lampooning US energy policy.
No longer available from host site.
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WHAT ARE WE WAITING FOR? — This 18-minute film shows how we're wasting energy in power plants today, and how decentralized energy and innovative improvements can help us transition into a sustainable energy future. These technologies already exist! The clip is easy-to-follow and packed with zippy graphics. From Greenpeace via google Video.
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PEOPLE-CENTERED DEVELOPMENTS FOR REDUCED-ENERGY LIVING
A great interview with a developer who has proved that it is possible to escape the standard grid-dependent sprawl model and instead create a community that uses sustainable energy sources, collocates services and homes, has more green spaces—and that people love living in. From Peak Moment Television.
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MUSIC VIDEOS ABOUT OIL
It's about fear, and control
Of those barrels of black gold.
Why are we still so dependent on oil, despite decades of awareness of the pitfalls of such a strategy? To help ponder the question, Grinning Planet has lined up half-a-dozen 'oil' music videos.
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OIL, SMOKE & MIRRORS
This documentary is an excellent presentation of the facts that cast overwhelming doubt on the official story of 9/11, linking the event to a larger, unspoken geopolitical strategy that has its roots in Peak Oil, not Al Queda. This is must-see internet TV for any citizen of the US—and the world. Available free from Ronan Doyle via YouTube ...
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INSIDE BIODIESEL
A good overview of the positive attributes of biodiesel and how it can be made from used vegetable oil (among other things).
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CONFRONTING CHANGE
There are numerous threats to our ability to continue business as usual. The recent Confronting Change conference reviewed two that loom large—climate change and peak oil. Presentations include... (1) Climate Change Conferences and Ecocide ~~ (2) Peak Oil, Powerful Interests, and Vast Potentials ~~ (3) Reengineering the Party. Watch peak oil and climate change videos.
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