Yu Koyo Peya

00:00:15 The car is on fire. And there is no driver at the wheel.

00:01:49 The skyline was beautifull on fire, all twisted metals, stretching upwards everything awash in a thin orange haze

00:03:18 There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern.

00:04:07 so just what is civilization?

00:05:06 past collapses

00:06:02 particularly choping down forests on which they depended for plaster and fuel.

00:06:55 My UCLA students really bored home with that question

00:07:46 when about half the oil has been extracted, it becomes more difficult to extract whats left

00:08:45 the most important economic event of the 20th century.

00:10:04 that there will be a transition or a slowing down of the economy

00:10:51 that our economy is now based almost entirely on the creation of suburban sprawl

00:11:41 it really isn’t going to work, because oil is unique in its high-energy content

00:12:49 a lot of job loss, it will be a collapse of certain kinds of industries

00:13:31 It may lead to some degree to the dissolution of our democratic institutions in the United States

00:14:31 And we’re virtually eating petroleum. When so much food is produced

00:15:21 for a combination of events that are going to considerably thin out the population.

00:16:05 and whatever emerges from it, is going to emerge from really a great kind of fire of the soul

00:16:53 "Well, these are interesting ideas. That makes sense, but so what?"

00:17:40 It’s been all about cheap energy for transportation of resources

00:18:22 and did a lot of things and projects and it was a great experience.

00:19:19 and mediated and disembodied, and the techno culture it's just becomnig very impoverished

00:20:25 To immerse ourselves in the oblivion of action and know we’re making it happen.