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Assignment:

NATURAL DISASTERS

Questions about the 2010 documentary, Collapse, with Michael Ruppert

1. How were Ruppert's parents employed? What job did Ruppert train for? What caused him to quit the LAPD?
2. How did Ruppert learn about "peak oil"?
3. What are some of the things that are made from oil? How much oil is in a single tire?
4. What is "peak oil"? What happens to the supply of a resource after the peak is passed?
5. What is the NEPDG? Who ran it? What were they trying to find out?
6. How much does a well in deep water cost? How deep is the typical offshore well?
7. How much of the known oil reserves in the planet is in Saudi Arabia? What does the fact that they are drilling offshore tell you about your reserves?
8. What did the Bush Administration do 11 days after 9/11? What did it have to do with the actual terrorists who executed 9/11?
9. How much oil does Iraq have? How fast does the world consume it? How many days would it last?
10. What are the problems drilling in the Arctic? Why are conservative think tanks and oil companies cheering the melting of the polar ice caps?
11. How long would the supply of ANWR last? What are the problems with extracting oil from the ANWR?
12. Why do the Saudis keep their actual oil reserves secret?
13. Who was Marion King Hubbert? What did he predict? How did he make that prediction?
14. How did President Jimmy Carter respond to the information about peak oil in the 1970s?
15. How many vehicles run on internal combustion engines around the world today?
16. What was the problem with ethanol biofuels? What is the net energy of ethanol for biofuels?
17. What are the problems with Canadian tar sands? How many barrels does it produce per day?
18. What is the problem with "clean coal"?
19. What is the problem with nuclear energy?
20. What alternative energies are the only practical ones for the immediate future?
21. What is the problem with generating renewable energy like solar or wind in remote places?
22. How did soil naturally get replenished? What do we use to fertilize soils now?
23. How is oil used in agriculture?
24. What is the problem with strawberries from Chile or spinach from China?
25. How many calories of hydrocarbon energy are in every calorie of food we consume?
26. How did Ruppert predict the 2007-2008 financial crisis?
27. What did von Clausewitz say? How does Ruppert modify it?
28. What is a derivative? How did these lead to the financial crisis of 2008?
29. What is "fiat currency"? How are fiat currency and energy linked?
30. What is the implication of credit cards with high interest rates?
31. How does infinite growth conflict with finite energy?
32. How many people were on earth about 1 A.D.? What happened to population around 1900? What is human population now?
33. How are population and oil linked?
34. What eventually happens to all exploding populations?
35. What the three typical responses of passengers on the Titanic? How is this analogous to what is happening today?
36. What is the "bumpy plateau" of oil production? How does it relate to the reality of finite oil?