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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
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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
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driving as often and owning as many
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decade.
Fossil fuels like crude oil are, as
Speaking of Iraq - although the
suggested inthe documentary, nonre
oil is enormous: 98 percent.
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newable means of energy that should
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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,
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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.
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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
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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.
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kind using up the oil on the planet in
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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
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, The. result: a shocking film full
of warning for a crisis that is very.
likely to happen within the next few
decades.
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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
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and deserted lands could be used
productively in that way. '
The biggest message of the film
is not easily lost: something must
change.
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tomobile,” according to the film, if crude oil reserves continue
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Dr. Jules
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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.
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Boykoff finds this promising, I
thinks that both journalists and J
could do better.
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“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.