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Interview: The Social Effects of Peak Oil
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Posted 27 August 2007 in North America | Community | Feature | Local Effects
Published 17 August 2007 by Global Public Media (original article)

How will rising oil prices affect low- and middle-class lives? Sociologist and professor Rowan Wolf sees at-risk populations growing while government services and class divides are increasingly strained. A member of the Portland Peak Oil Task Force, she discusses relocalizing our economies to counter globalization based on an unsupportable grow-or-die economic model.

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Published 17 August 2007 by Global Public Media, http://globalpublicmedia.com/peak_moment_the_social_effects_of_peak_oil

How will rising oil prices affect low- and middle-class lives? Sociologist and professor Rowan Wolf sees at-risk populations growing while government services and class divides are increasingly strained. A member of the Portland Peak Oil Task Force, she discusses relocalizing our economies, to counter globalization based on an unsupportable grow-or-die economic model. Episode 69 of Peak Moment.

  • Peak Moment: The Social Effects of Peak Oil (video) (length 28 min): stream
  • Peak Moment: The Social Effects of Peak Oil (audio) (length 28 min): download, stream
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