"A Crude Awakening"

Friday, April 4, 2008 7:00 PM, free
West Asheville Library
942 Haywood Rd., Asheville, NC 28806
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PANEL DISCUSSION:
WNC Peak Oil Perspectives
Thursday, April 10, 2008 7:00 PM, free
West Asheville Library
942 Haywood Rd., Asheville, NC 28806

Panelists:
John Sticpewich, retired petroleum geologist
Jim Barton, Smith Mill Creek Permaculture School,
"Transition Town Movement"
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About the film
"A Crude Awakening":
Compelling, intelligent, and highly entertaining,
this film visits top experts and comes to a startling but logical
conclusion - our industrial society, built on cheap and readily
available oil, must be completely re-imagined and overhauled.

Shot on
location in Azerbaijan, Venezuela, the Middle East, and Texas, the
film provides not only questions but possible solutions to the most
perplexing and important economic, environmental and public policy
issues of our time.

In a report commissioned by the U.S. Department of Energy, Robert L.
Hirsch, Senior Energy Program Advisor, Science Applications
International Corporation) challenged the notion that the free market
can solve the peak oil emergency:

"The world has never faced a problem
like Peak Oil. Without massive mitigation more than a decade before
the fact, the problem will be pervasive and will not be temporary.
Previous energy transitions (wood to coal and coal to oil) were
gradual and evolutionary; oil peaking will be abrupt and revolutionary."

PANEL DISCUSSION:
WNC Peak Oil Perspectives
Thursday, April 10, 2008 7:00 PM,
West Asheville Library
942 Haywood Rd., Asheville, NC 28806

Panelists:
John Sticpewich, retired petroleum geologist
Jim Barton, Smith Mill Creek Permaculture School, "Transition Town
Movement"