Oil spill and oil addiction

This morning I heard the author of this book, a resident of Vermont USA, speaking on the Gulf Oil Spill with my favorite broadcaster Fran Kelly. Go Fran!!

Lying behind the Oil Spill tragedy, is the addiction to oil of modern economies. The hunger for oil, and its imminent shortage, drives us to search for it so deep under the sea that only robots can reach the wellhead.

Accidents and errors of judgement are implicit in the human condition. We can be sure that more accidents like this will occur as oil companies are driven to search for ever diminishing resources.

The solution lies in a reduction of our demand for resources, while we wait for new, less damaging, technologies to be developed.

Listen in to Australia's great public radio station, and check out this interview