I'm still coming to terms with the fact that I'm going to see abrupt and drastic environmental change in my lifetime. I feel oddly fortunate and yet frightened at this realization. I certainly feel worse for August. I still believe business will go on as usual up until the day I die, and I'll be relatively unaffected by all this, but it's August who I'm worried about. I think the social changes in his life (an escalation in both social tension and repression) will be of a more severe and direct degree. If the trajectory of our social order continues unabated, I can only hope he'll decide not to have kids, cause THEY will really be in a precarious state of existence.
I'm still coming to terms with the fact that I'm going to see abrupt and drastic environmental change in my lifetime. I feel oddly fortunate and yet frightened at this realization. I certainly feel worse for August. I still believe business will go on as usual up until the day I die, and I'll be relatively unaffected by all this, but it's August who I'm worried about. I think the social changes in his life (an escalation in both social tension and repression) will be of a more severe and direct degree. If the trajectory of our social order continues unabated, I can only hope he'll decide not to have kids, cause THEY will really be in a precarious state of existence.
Why do you think peak oil will cause such problems? Every other time capitalists have run out of a commodity, they've just allowed the research in other commodities that they've long suppressed.
I don't know exactly how serious the ramifications of peak oil are going to be and i do agree that capitalists are going to open research and development into alternative energy sources....they have to if they want to keep the current social order intact. this is the same premise of corporate capitalism starting to make adjustments in policy for global warming.
i guess i'm just not privy to any information that shows a serious and timely effort to stem the peak oil economic meltdown. and personally...good. if a switch from oil to a sustainable energy source means the continuation of a domineering social order, then i hope they don't find the solutions.
I guess I just see it like this: in terms of technology, the world is changing and "progressing" at an extremely rapid rate. I think we'd have more decent technology and much less crazy, evil technology if we didn't have giant corporations buying out people who have ideas that could save lives and money and be more efficient. I think that the scope and scale of this intervention and destruction of good ideas is probably a lot more staggering than we could imagine, especially in the fields of medicine and energy
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If it was just Peak Oil I wouldn't think it would be as bad. But there seems to be a "perfect storm" a brewing. With Global Warming, Peak Energy (Oil, Gas, Coal, Food, Water), and various other factors.
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Why do you think peak oil will cause such problems? Every other time capitalists have run out of a commodity, they've just allowed the research in other commodities that they've long suppressed.
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i guess i'm just not privy to any information that shows a serious and timely effort to stem the peak oil economic meltdown. and personally...good. if a switch from oil to a sustainable energy source means the continuation of a domineering social order, then i hope they don't find the solutions.
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Yes. Starcraft 2 should have been #1.
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