YouTube: 300 Years of fossil fuels in 300 seconds

[Ian Townsend]

Teaching energy / the energy debate / fossil fuels etc I use this 5 minute video on YouTube. I love the way it nutshells the role of fossil fuels in a 'Big Picture' of economic growth in the last 300 years and the students get well fired up as it links stuff they've learned in history, science and economics.

The five minutes rip by:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJ-J91SwP8w

There's something about the guy's voice too that keeps the kids in pin-drop silence.
I always follow it through with various news articles and footage of Detroit In Ruins.

[einekleine]

Both thumbs up from me!

We're on a Death Trip - shame it sounds so good!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgPEk6ZWeW0

[Ian Townsend]

Both thumbs up from me!

We're on a Death Trip - shame it sounds so good!


Nicely linked to a native of Detroit. :)

There's another good one by the same carbon neutral team I can post later from a proper computer

[Gingham Kitchen]

Stabilising population is the thing that worries me the most at present, but some of the potential solutions to that are terrifying. Good film.

[Ian Townsend]

Another five minute animated quickie from the postcarbon institute.

Who killed economic growth?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQqDS9wGsxQ&feature=relmfu