The Shale Oil Miracle: A Biophysical Perspective

3min Snip

00:00

Play full episode

Summary

Transcript

Episode notes

The U.S. developed the petro dollar 50 years ago where other countries in the world have to use our currency to buy key commodities, including oil. And that deficit is siphoned up by the rest of the world who need dollars. We'll probably be at some sort of plateau for a decade or so, a reduced plateau. But the issue is that it's not going to continue to grow and that has massive implications.

For this year’s Earth Day presentation, I highlight common terms in the English language - the meanings of which we've come to take for granted. These words semantically imbue our understanding, perspective, and even behavior but have become untethered from the systemic reality they attempt to describe. Words have power. What we call things and how we describe things matters.

This presentation is recommended to be viewed on Youtube with the accompanying visuals, but can still be listened to and understood in audio-only form.

Thanks to my team - Leslie Batt-Lutz, Lizzy Sirianni, Luke Robert Mason, and Jason Figueredo for putting this together. Also thanks (as always) to my friend DJ White for helpful input. Thanks to Joan Diamond, Kyle Saunders, Maia Nillson, Rex Weyler for helpful input.