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  • TCR ie PR ae I Page 5 WESTERN CAROLINIAN September 26, 2008 FEATURES HONORS COLLEGE CALENDAR THE GREEN LIGHT: The Peak Oil Challenge By Curt Collins Octob er Contributing Writer 29 Movie Night Lately there has Reynolds Lobby been a lot of conversation out 8:00 pm in Jackson County, and media 31 Halloween Party attention about the use of oil, what we are forced to engage in to secure it for our coun- Reynolds Lobby try, its limited availability 8:00 pm and how do we get off of it. What would we do, as a soci- November ety if the prices continued to skyrocket and the supply con- y Rea ding Day (io classe) tinued to decrease? Because S Movie Night the reality of it is that this is happening, and I fear that the prices will not return to what Reynolds Lobby we were used to because that 8:00 pm is not the direction they usu- V for Vendetta ally go. The Peak Oil prob- lem appears to be a certainty for our country and the world sometime in the future. At home the U.S is producing almost less than half of the oil we were just back in the 1980s: from 8,686 barrels per day in 1983 to 5,097 in August 2008 (U.S. Weekly Supply). This much of a drop in production is news to me. The Peak Oil Theory, devel- oped by M. King Hubbert in 1949, says that at some point in the future we will reach the maximum amount of oil produced in the world, after which it will decline. All the while our use of petroleum will be increasing and our population will be too. There is a docu- mentary titled The Power of Community: How Cuba Sur- vived Peak Oil. It is available in Hunter Library at Western and | recommend it to you. The film showed ways to accomplish what would be 11 ~ Chili-Cookoff/Game Night Reynolds Lobby 6:00 pm 19 Movie Night Reynolds Lobby 8:00 pm and content society, with very GEOLOGY IN THE BAHAMAS By Jordan Monroe Staff Writer Geology majors: pay at- tention! Here is a unique op- portunity to travel to a beau- tiful location and learn about geology and biology. Blair Tormey is taking a class to San Salvador Island, Bahamas, May 11-22, 2009. Its officially called GEOL 140 SAN SAL: Environ- ments of the Bahamas. This is a two-week intro- ductory liberal arts course to study the ecology of the island and the human affects on the ecosystem. You will explore many environments, such as caves, coral reefs, beaches, and bird and reptile colonies. Blair Tormey has been tak- ing students to the Bahamas since 2006, but has been do- ing research there since 1997. He says, One of the benefits to studying geology in the Bahamas is that the sediments of the islands are extremely sensitive to changes in the ocean, biologic community, and climate. Any changes made to the environment on the islands will be observable in the geology. The students are literally immersed in the environment, and gain a bet- ter understanding of its com- plex and fragile nature. This class is open to everyone at all levels and majors. No prerequisites are required. The course is $1600 plus summer tuition which in- cludes airfare, housing, food, materials, and transportation. Snorkeling gear will need to be bought separately, which goes for about $100, and you might want to bring money for snacks and souvenirs. You want to make this decision fast: the first $500 deposit is due January 30, 2009. You can contact Blair Tormey at btormey@wcu. edu or 828-227-3916 and Su- san Barbour-Wood at susan- wood@wcu.edu. little to no oil use. Cuba confronted its own Peak Oil crisis recently in the early 1990s when the Soviet Union fell apart and could no longer support the island nation with oil. Cubas economy suffered a 34% crash in GDP and an 80% drop in exports. This mani- fested itself in many ways in the country, one of them being the health status of its people: children became quickly malnutritioned; pregnant women became anemic, birth weight de- clined and Cu- ban citizens lost an average of 20 pounds per person! Add to this the decline in employment and available materials for doing just about anything and society as you know it is no longer. But they handled it, and as humans can easily do, they overcame their problems with a superior sys- tem to the prior one. They imported a million and a half bicycles and built half a million. They converted trucks into large taxis and used semis to pull enormous buses in order to transport everyone. Garden- ing and local food production became a necessity, univer- sities became decentralized, commuting distances drasti- cally decreased, architecture took on a low energy focus, all things based on oil had to be reworked in their civiliza- tion. Through this com- plete changing of their so- ciety they also reaped enor- mous side benefits. The average Cuban use 1/8th the amount of energy compared to the average American; this immediately translates into money (more of it for them and less for us) a decrease in pollution, and less messy pol- itics (Cuba has zero imported foreign energy resources). There was a national de- crease in diabetes, heart at- necessary, on a large level, in... tacks and: strokes due to, an order to still have a modern... increase in activity levels and. a healthier food supply for all Cuban citizens. The film also spoke of the increase in. community (as evidenced by greater sharing of resources, co-educating, volunteering, etc.) and a rise in education rates leading to a doctor pa- tient ratio of 57/1,000 con- trasted with 28/1,000 in the United States. It is too bad that we did not heed our own federal governments movies like When The Circuit Breaks. This was made on our tax dollar and released for us to know about the finite gas sup- ply. The film states, ...with a crisis that could recur and recur unless the entire coun- try recognizes the dangers of a quite real energy shortage. That was released during the gas crisis in the 1970s and now that sentence has been proven correct. We are living the recurrence. Then there was President Carter who began a new en- ergy policy with tax credits for alternative energy use and CAFE (Corporate Average Fuel Economy) standards to make automobile manufac- turers build more fuel-effi- cient vehicles. Unfortunately his ideas were rolled back by his successor Ronald Rea- gan. If we are not some- what ready for worldwide Peak Oil, and its subsequent decline, we will not be able to easily handle it when it comes. Preparing for it is thankfully already happen- ing in the good ol USA, and we could advance its rate ex- ponentially if we wanted to. We all have a chance in a few weeks to vote for more secure _ energy production. Check outs: the candidates for all offices jc to see whom you think will make the better choices for us all. 1.The Power Of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil. Dir. Faith Morgan. Com- munity Service, Inc. 2006. 2. U.S. Weekly Supply Esti- mates. 10/01/2008. Energy Information Administration. October 4, 2008. http://tonto. eia.doe.gov/dnav/pet/hist/ werfpus2w.htm ELECTION RESULTSLIVE VIEWING NOVEMBER 4, 2008 6:00PM 1:00AM UC THEATER JOIN VARIOUS WCU GROUPS INCLUDING SGA, COLLEGE DEMOCRATS, & COLLEGE REPUBLICANS IN VIEWING THE RESULTS OF THIS MONUMENTAL ELECTION!
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