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Two weeks ago, oil was soaring toward $150 a barrel; now it’s nosediving to $120 and may even see $100 again. Popular discourse is eager to use this as evidence for dimissing peak oil.  Not so fast, says Richard Heinberg. 

For over a decade, Bob Banner has brought documentary films to his region, and published a bimonthly tabloid HopeDance, "Radical solutions inspiring hope." Ahead of many, he brings "disturbing" information as well as solutions and positive visions. Bob discusses the massive failure of media, spiritual films, relocalization, peak oil, and myriad other topics. (www.hopedance.org) Episode 99.

On this episode of The Reality Report, Alan Weisman talks about his book "The World Without Us," a fascinating study of what would happen to our built infrastructure and the natural world were humans to vanish. Though the book's scenario is far fetched, it works as a teaching device. It gives one a sense of the vulnerabilities we face with resource constraints as we may find it difficult to maintain what was built with fossil energy and rich mineral ores.

Today BBC Radio 4 talked to oil geologist and local energy farms advisor Jeremy Leggett about OPEC and $100 oil prices - Leggett says "we haven't seen anything yet." Later in the broadcast, Radio 4 covered the newly released IPCC 4th Assessment on climate change, which notes that climate change is "severe and so sweeping that only urgent, global action" can head it off.

Bart Anderson of Energy Bulletin recaps recent news related to resource depletion, climate change and more.

Dara Rowland is producer of Escape From Suburbia: Beyond the American Dream., the sequel to the highly regarded film End of Suburbia. In this episode of the Reality Report she talks to host Jason Bradford about "Escape," and about the upcoming third film in the trilogy, which will go beyond North America.

Paul Syvret, assistant editor and columnist for the Courier Mail newspaper in Australia, talks to GPM's Andi Hazelwood about the forthcoming report on "Queensland's Vulnerability to Rising Oil Prices." Syvret also discusses his coverage of peak oil in the Courier Mail and other News Corp. publications and his own thoughts on peak oil and mitigation strategies.

Bart Anderson of Energy Bulletin recaps recent news related to resource depletion, climate change and more.

Former BBC journalist David Strahan talks to GPM's Julian Darley about the sudden attention to peak oil in the UK and elsewhere from the media, the NPC, the IEA, Goldman Sachs and CIBC. Strahan also recounts his experience with the UK's new All Party Parliamentary Group on Peak Oil and Gas (APPGOPO).

In this in depth interview from the Global Public Media archives, journalist Barrie Zwicker, widely known in the peak oil community as the host of "End of Suburbia," talks about the role of the media and the lack of coverage of 9/11 inconsistencies in mainstream media.