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Portland Peak Oil Task Force - membership
Submitted by localize it on May 5, 2006 - 12:18am.
Brainstorming desired qualities for Task Force membership.
A great opporunity now presents itself to influence the membership of Portland's Peak Oil task force slated for creation on May 10th, 2006. Here we feel it's valuable for folks to contribute their thoughts on the personal qualities and characteristics they'd like to see represented on the task force. Which skill sets, experiences, and lifestyles would be good indicators of the kind of person we'd like to see on the task force? If you could be the interviewer, what questions would you ask?
Task Force Interviews?
I assume these questions would be applied to potential advisors outside of PPO as well? How will the city themselves interview task force members that are not connected with PPO?
Questions I believe are relevant:
- Please give a short description of your understanding of what "Peak Oil" means
- What challenges do you think Peak Oil will create / is creating for Portland and surrounding areas?
- Why do you feel you are qualified to advise the City of Portland on how to address the challenges of Peak Oil?
- If you had five recommendations to make right now, what would they be?
dealing with the scary factor
I would ask a question about how to deal with the 'scary' aspects of peak oil. More specifically, I would like to ask about how a potential taskforce member plans on getting the point across that this (peak oil) is very likely going to require significant changes in most/many areas of life, no one knows exactly what to do, without scaring the bejesus out of them. I know that nearly everyone is knocked for a loop when they first get what peak oil will mean, but it is really easy for folks to just end up being frozen by not knowning what to do.
Agreed...
I think one of the things to consider is leadership qualities and ability to persuade / motivate others. The issue is as deep as this silly question:
- If you showed a crowd of people a sheet of paper that was white and the crowd maintained it was black, how would you go about getting the crowd to accept it was white?
It seems this is the type of challenge the folks on the task force will face - how to solve this riddle. There are no studies done on the effects of "Acceptance" of peak oil on different types of people... it's all from within EACH PERSON how they will deal with Peak Oil.
Task Force members should have the ability to understand various personalities / income levels / etc. There are serious psychographics and demographics to consider, even if you enforce "Rules", people will respond / react differently when they realize the truth of what is here now / coming on stronger every day.