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8 Art ulture Clackamas Jl Wednesday, April 16, 2008 Oil film sends viewers ‘A Grude Awakening’ The showings of a dynamic documentor? inform the campus audience of a threat ’ American I dream of Searched for oil, and scientists do decline is the rapid industrialization not have much hope that even a few of other countries, which are “hooked reserves of petroleum of any sizeable on trying to develop a society like amount will be discovered. us,” Matt Simmons explains. ft also outlines some additional Simmons isan energyinvestment side effects to oil depletion, which broker, and advises President George fwe have already begun to see. The largest and deadliest of these No nations are increasing their is the ongoing war over the remain- oil demand more than China, where most of the population expects to be Em» driving as often and owning as many , j » - • i c Hussein led Iraq in an invasion of 4 cars as Americans within the next ■« Artsjj»1 Culture Editor X, iqjt Ti—.... — —■■■-■....................... ... Kuwait The 'iwsjpft was about seiz- . The percentage of our world’s - n^apajticulariy Isqgeoil field, decade. Fossil fuels like crude oil are, as Speaking of Iraq - although the suggested inthe documentary, nonre oil is enormous: 98 percent. United States government has con- ... JW would happen 1hen;if our » tinuous.lv denied oil as areason for oil reserves suddenlvl|teriL»y^>w ♦ ¿be War oa hfrfr d fr tate&Mfag newable means of energy that should ?4.-wopld the Earth cope without the learn that the planning mapsidentf- produce, and some [is] hot,” Campell huge amount of cheap energy that fied the Middle Eastern country’soil said. transportation that relies directly on humanity has come tq, upon so resource'' heavily? 4 • .* ’ Boged ■^A^M^tic movie depicting the^ just be conserved and used less greedily. “Some oil is cheap, fast, easy to Many solutions are shown, if -pofiticiaas’ are being somewhat quickly shot down. 'to put it' ironica^^g Ethanol is surely one of the most unrealistic fixes;; more oil is needed possible outcome was featured in the slimy? McLoughlin Auditorium oh Tuesday, “The better you do the job of' to produde itthanit is worth. Also, whicfij is more valuable: exploiting oil and gas, the sooner it is April 8, as part of the Sustainability 7 ; Pr^qctilvenfe Scheduled for this gone,” Colin Campell, ah oil geolo gist, explains in the film. * Sf food or transportation? Producing term. Entitled “A Crude Awakening: The Oil Crash,” the film highlights the jfereseenljcatastrope of human The conflicts over oil in the recent past have focused, on the Middle choice between tile two. -v I don’t know, about everybody kind using up the oil on the planet in ' WJ. 3 ^^..Jn-W57:-awd-winngg European journalists and filmmakers Basil East’s resources for good reason. else, but feeding the world seems The United. States’oil is said to have ■tond 1970. just a wee bit more important than Gelpke and Ray McCormack gath- now, really the only region of the world that hasn’t peaked is the ered interviews from more than two Middle East,” said Matthew David dozen experts in many different Savinar. fields. Savinar is a . , The. result: a shocking film full of warning for a crisis that is very. likely to happen within the next few decades. > large amounts of ethanol requires a transport. Perhaps the most promising pos sibility of those presented was solar The ratio of solar panels to energy California State procitrefcd seems like it would be Attorney and founder of the Web site worth it ~ after all, mahy more roofs lifeaftertheoilcrash.net. Do not be fooled, though - oil reduction is not merely ,‘ari-Assue oi The film clearly conveys the fact the United States’ demand. that most of the world has been T' M z to the Earth’s - . .. ,....... .......... "7 .. and deserted lands could be used productively in that way. ' The biggest message of the film is not easily lost: something must change. ^*'4" * '77............ 77.......... ‘.. ...Courtesy of oitcrashmovte.com tomobile,” according to the film, if crude oil reserves continue rate-_________________________________________ I Dr. Jules I Boykoff dis cusses medii coverage of green topics Elilily Walters Arts & Culture Editor The media: it is all around us. Television, newspapers, radio-i truly escape their influence? Dr. Jules Boykoff a political instructor at Pacific University, jj Grove, recently spoke on campus al media’s connection to how the pul ceives scientists’ view of global wiinij event was held Thursday, April 10, j McLoughlin Auditorium. Boykoff was 1he first of severs ers to visit the college as part Sustainability Project, which is in year at Clackamas. The focus of the lecture concerned ists’ fair coverage of climate change, not helping keep the population infi to humans’ role in toe problem. “Maybe there are some issues ™ ance is a problem,” Boykoff said. 1 The Intergovernmental Panel ofl Change (TPCC) is ccxnprised of nJ most respected climate-change scien group reports are only reached tliro^ sensus, which Boykoff identified as[] the best way to handle the subject nJ Boykoff reviewed for the audietn key points ofresearch that he and ha Maxwell T. Boykoff, who worksg Environmental Change Institute ini published in a November 2007 issl scholarly journal Geiy&mM. Tte 1 titled “Climate change and joumaM A case-study of U.S. mass-media col In the study, they took a random J 636 articles having to do with gloJ ing. Out of these, toey deemed 53 J be equal in their coverage of botlisil The selection was further brokaji one-year chunks, and they saw tliaii when the number of balanced artic® to decrease. The last percentage ni by Boykoff was only 3 percent, al able drop. 1 Boykoff finds this promising, I thinks that both journalists and J could do better. n “Scientists need to be better advid their research and results,” he said. He went on to suggest that tht not merely write for scientific joum are really needed, he believes, are nr stream articles written using languag masses can understand. For exampl warming could be described as a blanket wrapping around toe planet a ing it,” because that is easy for ma to picture. The media could help, acco Boykoff by stressing toe economi as those are most likely to hum global warming dilemma. He alsoi if journalists always mentioned the a and background of toe people tb( toe public would be more apt to a information. One of toe most interesting pc Boykoff spoke about, in light of t dential elections this year, is that candidates support a reduction in c with toe end goal being 2050. Joht set toe percentage at 60 percent, v Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton ing toward about 80 percent. Expressing his excitement about Sustainability Project is doing at Cl Boykoff closed with four pieces oft those concerned about toe issue: 1. Do your best to reduce cart print 2. Press toe institutions and | match actions to sentiments. 3. Continue educational pieces ing about global warming. 4. Absolutely demand that politi< take action with legislation to prevt warming.
