[GJM] The Final Oil crisis!: global rules on oil management, and emotional intelligence in national leaders

[Dr.Muhammad Mukhtar Alam]

For many there would not be any transition with the exhuastion of fossil fuels as they have been living with the ecologically sustaianble livelihoods ,consumption,production and transport system..There are village where elders especially women have not yet seen railway tracks or aeoroplane. There are mule tracks in Himachal Pradesh where people from far off villages in the mountains used them for getting the essesntials such as salt.
   
  For the fossil fuel based urban areas, there would be a problem. Therefore, it the populations in the urban areas that need to prepare for an eventuality of the loss of non-renewable resource based livelihoods.
   
  Dr.Muhammad Mukhtar Alam

SDN <sdn at ned.org.au> wrote:
  Dear Friends,
    For possible interest.  I put these thoughts together in response to a contact’s feedback question.   I had sent round a circular about the fact that our affordable global oil supply will run out shortly and will cause chaos because of our failure in emotional intelligence.   We are not squarely facing the need to manage this unavoidable transition. 

 -- Ned Iceton
  
Dear Vickie,

       The absence of emotional intelligence in national leaders is a global problem.  The oil issue, climate change,  neocolonialism & terrorism, refugees, nuclear dangers, water, the population ceiling, etc., are not being adequately addressed.  The International Simultaneous Policy Organisation (ISPO) – see Simpol website below – is promoting a way for citizens to get round the problem of political failure at an international level, on issues such as these.  

   We certainly need as well to begin developing emotional intelligence in kids at school; and there are excellent ways of doing this which I am trying to promote.  Restorative Justice and Restorative Practice provide a method for managing affairs in emotionally intelligent ways and enabling us to learn emotional intelligence instead of the opposite.  I’ll attach a few items about it, plus others about applications in other areas.  Emotional intelligence is something we learn through regularly experiencing relationships that are caring, real, and expose us to others’ personal feedback about how we hurt them, whenever we do.  It has us face the facts (’calling a spade a spade’) whilst avoiding getting our common sense lost in the negative emotions of fear, blaming and punishing.  [Whereas the world’s religions have described and exhorted us to display moral behaviour, only by learning emotional intelligence can we find the courage and skill to actually BEHAVE morally.]

    Much can be learned by adults who have missed out as children.  In that situation, a similar approach, used by the Family Support Service in Goulburn NSW  <admin at gfss.ngo.org.au> has been successful in getting families back together which were previously blighted by domestic violence.  And the benefits to the kids in those families are enormous.  They learn emotional intelligence at the same time as their parents are learning it.  As you can imagine there is a lot of resistance to these ideas from people in authority who are not themselves well qualified in emotional intelligence.  Often grassroots people can see these matters more clearly than those in power slots, once it is explained and demonstrated, so we need a demand to well up from the people and push through the needed policy changes.   The ISPO can provide a means for that ‘upwelling’ to get a result.

    Is emotional intelligence an issue you might be interested to do something about?  I don’t remember how you got on my email list!

    Thanks for your question.  Best regards,        -- Ned Iceton   ---------------------------------------
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& Nurturing Evolutionary Development (N.E.D.) Foundation
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    From: "Vickie Powell" <veepee at lm.net.au>   Reply-To: "Vickie Powell" <veepee at lm.net.au>
Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2007 23:26:28 +0930
To: "SDN" <sdn at ned.org.au>
    Subject:    Re: The Final Oil crisis!: need for international rules on oil management
   
Wouldn’t this (emotional intelligence) depend upon how humans get taught about life....  which means early education issues would need to be addressed.....  and who is in charge
of what gets taught at schools etc.......

Cheers

Victoria


----- Original Message -----
From: "SDN" <sdn at ned.org.au>
To: "SDN A" <sdn at ned.org.au>; "SDN B" <sdn at ned.org.au>
Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2007 10:28 AM
Subject:   FW: The Final Oil crisis!: need for international rules on oil management


For possible interest.  Can we – global humanity - develop our emotional
intelligence sufficiently to manage this transition, along with the other transitions?
-- Ned Iceton
  ------ Forwarded Message
From: Eclipse <eclipse-now at optusnet.com.au>
Reply-To: OzSP at yahoogroups.com
Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2007 19:49:10 +1000
To: OzSP at yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [OzSP] SBS on Final Oil crisis!

Various nationalized oil companies such as Saudi-Aramco, Kuwaits oil company, and the big oil companies all produce their own oil and sell it on a world market. No one really fixes the price of oil. It's a global product on a global market. That market is so tight because:-   1. We are at peak oil, and the decline in global production is about to kick us in the guts real soon.
2. Even the former "swing" producers that could flood the market with extra oil as demand rose cannot do so. Even
        Saudi Arabia seems to be in decline.
3. Because demand has caught supply, the slightest whiff of international saber rattling like Iran threatening to  
        build nuclear power, well, it sends the oil price skyrocketing.
4. This means that no one is in control of oil — and the companies have literally hundreds of billions of dollars
        worth of product to sell, and DON'T want western nations to start weaning their countries off oil by increasing
        rail and trams. (Most renewable energy systems are electric, and until Electric Vehicles can be scaled up
       sufficiently we will have to feed that renewable energy into a super-electricity grid running mostly public
       transport.)

So the reality is that when it suddenly costs $200 or $300 to fill your car, things will be so bad that you simply will not be allowed to fill up.    Rationing will be commenced under a ‘liquid fuels emergency act’.
It's only designed to be temporary, but hey, this is the final oil crisis?   It will have to be installed permanently.

The only hope is if all nations sign on to the Oil Depletion Protocol (ODP), which is a policy Simpol are very wisely thinking of adopting.   I was so excited when I saw discussion to that effect.  <http://www.simpol.org>    <jbunzl at simpol.org>

Otherwise, without the ODP, 3rd world nations and developing countries may simply be unable to buy the oil they need in an all out international "bidding war", and the price will super-spike. In that scenario, millions or billions could starve to death as farming collapses.

Dave Lankshear
eclipsenow.blogspot.com
Welcome to the end of the oil age!
Free peak oil posters.


 

On 16/04/2007, at 7:16 PM, Judiann wrote:

        i think that is what i am trying to say too.
  
i mean  WHO does really own it all now ?
and why has it been allowed to get so expensive for the ordinary working class person to get to and from work etc each day, and even take their family out for a weekend drive ??
 
judi-ann
 






       
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