Dan Bednarz, PhD, left his position as Associate Director of the Center for Public Health Practice at the University of Pittsburgh in 2005 to devote himself full-time to speaking and writing on the topic of peak oil and how it affects health care. His website is www.healthafteroil.wordpress.com
He is interviewed here by Didi Pershouse, CCH, LAc, founder of the Center for Sustainable Medicine, and author of the Sustainable Medicine Manifesto. Her website is www.sustainablemedicine.org
A complete audio version of this interview can be heard at: www.archive.org/details/PeakOilAndSustainableMedicine
Didi Pershouse: Can you explain a little bit about the concept of “Peak Oil” and what it means?
Dan Bednarz: Peak oil simply means the point at which the maximum amount of oil being extracted from the earth peaks. It peaks, and then there’s a plateau, which is where we have been at for the past four years, and then it declines. It’s called a “Gaussian curve” in statistics. So that’s where we are now, in the world, at that peak point. We have hit the physical limits of growth. Oil just happens to be the first major resource that we are running low on. The larger issue is sustainability. That puts together peak oil, (more…)