The world without us if a virulent virusor even the rapturedepopulated earth overnight, how long before all trace of humankind vanished. World bank commodities price data the pink sheet for global oil and coal. World without oil serious game for the public good if. Lye also known as sodium hydroxide is a necessary part of making homemade soaps. We can certainly replace oil and other fossil fuels like coal and natural gas for stationary power production. It was the creation of san jose game writer and designer ken eklund, and arg veterans jane mcgonigal, dee cook, marie lamb, michelle senderhauf, and krystyn wells were on the puppetmaster team. Security analysis benjamin graham pdf magic the gathering cards the music producers handbook research methods the basics by nicholas walliman t ch hanuman rao. Energy security in the united states congressional budget office. A world without oil if an oil shortage crisis started today, how would your life. It gets much worse still, of course, because a world without oil would quickly become a world without all of the products made from petroleum that we have come to know, love and depend upon. Ken eklund, writerguy, world without oil, used with permission.
What will happen to our cities, our food, and our very. World without oil wwo is an alternate reality game arg created to call attention to, spark dialogue about, plan for and engineer solutions to a possible nearfuture global oil shortage, post peak oil. A san jose designer is trying to solve a crisis before it can happen. Th e united states has more coal that can be mined than the rest of the world has oil that can be pumped from the. In fact, onefourth of all the known coal in the world is in the united states. Today, oil and gas is produced in almost every part of the world, from the small 100. Oil is one of the most important commodities today.
Saudi arabias place in the world oil market is threatened by unrestrained domestic fuel. The oil and gas industry has unmatched intellectual, financial, political. World without oil is a milestone in the quest to use games as democratic, collaborative platforms for exploring possible futures and sparking futurechanging action wwo is a model for using a hot netnative storytelling method alternate reality to meet civic and educational goals and be compellingly fun. It established a citizen nerve centerto track events and share solutions. Imagine if all the oil yet to be extracted from the ground suddenly disappeared, never to reappear again. Lo oil prices an opportunity or uel subsiy reorm lumbia. The scariest thing for me when i first started making soap was working with lye. An oil refinery is an industrial cathedral, a place of power, drama and dark recesses. Associated gas is a blend of hydrocarbons that is released when crude oil is brought to the surface. You can view world without oil 2007 in context using the wayback machine at the internet archive. Coal energy for sustainable development 6 energy access targets the world currently lacks an internationally agreed global target to improve access to electricity. Anybody could play by creating a personal story an email.
World without oils aim is to use an alternate reality game to engage the. No annoying ads, no download limits, enjoy it and dont forget to bookmark and. Petroleumor crude oilis a fossil fuel that is found in large quantities beneath the earths surface and is often used as a fuel or raw material in the chemical. Without oil the world would shrink back to a preoil population of about 1billion. Following the qatar exit from opec 1st january 2019, iea includes qatar condensate in crude oil and no more in natural gas liquids data.
View, print, sign, and annotate pdfs with our free adobe acrobat reader. The oil industry can no longer rely on its monopoly of the transport market. The gamemaster set the price of fuel and level of availability for each week, and challenged players to document their lives in this new energydeprived reality. Changing the carbon footprints of unconventional oils. Study on energy prices, costs and subsidies and their impact on.
The worlds most valuable resource is no longer oil, but. We have to leave oil before oil leaves us, said dr. Play jane mcgonigals world without oil boing boing. The game ran for a month between may and june 2007. If 6 billion offer to off themselves to reach this goal, all the power to them, but i or my family wont be on that list. A leading energy economist in the international energy agency reported today, in an interview with the independent, that the world s oil supply has been depleting almost twice as fast as their 2007 projection, and that an energy supply crisis is looming in the next five years that will choke off any economic recovery. Apart from items that apparently had dropped from boats, such as greek salt boxes and. To solve the most common pdfdisplay issues, follow the steps in troubleshoot viewing pdf files.
How would we cope without the raw material that made the modern world possible. Thats the provocative, and occasionally puckish, question. Oil petroleumor crude oilis a fossil fuel that is found in large quantities beneath the earths surface and is often used as a fuel or raw material in the chemical. World without oil was an alternate reality game arg, commissioned by a nonprofit public media company, itvs of san francisco, and the corporation for public broadcasting. World without oil simulated the first 32 weeks of a global oil crisis. Part one looks at what an oil less world would like during the first year. Many web browsers, such as chrome, firefox, and safari, now use their own pdf viewer instead of the adobe pdf plugin.
Anybody could play by creating a personal story an email or phone call, or for advanced users a blog post, video, photo, podcast, twitter, whatever that chronicled the imagined reality of. The world without us by alan weisman free download. World without oil, the latest alternate reality game from jane mcgonigal, my colleague at institute for the future, is now in high gear. In contrast, the united states has no alternatives that can be readily substituted. For best results, configure your browser to use the adobe pdf plugin to open online pdf files. World without oil is a collaborative alternate reality event simulating the first 32 weeks of a global oil shock. As of today we have 100,974,488 ebooks for you to download for free.
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