De-Friending Oil: An Evening with Andrew Nikiforuk

This session dealt with how, in Nikiforuk’s opinion, petro-dependency corrodes our humanity and what it will take to pull free. Andrew Nikiforuk, one of Canada’s top journalists on energy issues, has spent the past two years researching the key question of our age such as if we can’t live with oil, how can we survive giving it up? Nikiforuk’s acclaimed new book 'The Energy of Slaves: Oil and the New Servitude' argues the petro-economy is a false one allowing us to delude ourselves (until it’s too late?) about what really matters in life. Nikiforuk’s work for the online news source The Tyee was entitled “Big Shift: Leaving Oil Behind,” This work extended explored what it will really take — politically, economically and culturally – to survive peak oil and stave off climate change.