The Oil Drum

This is a guest post by Dan Miner, organizer of the local NYC Peak Oil Meet-Up group about a new report he recently published.

As Oil Drum readers know, getting our communities to even acknowledge the reality of fuel depletion, let alone prepare for it, is a huge communications challenge. The Sierra Club NYC Group Energy Report offers an indirect approach that can be applied in any municipality, at any level of energy literacy.

While climate change awareness has increased dramatically this year, it is still widely believed that the climate impacts of our oil addiction lie far in the future, preventing a public consensus of urgency. Without that, the bold political action we need today is impossible. The stated primary goal of the report is to deal with potentially imminent national energy security risks at local levels, while also using those conventionally accepted issues to speed up the schedule for climate change response.