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IntoTheBlack on March 5, 2006 - 8:22pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
"What concerns me is that so much of life in Britain appears 'unreal' to me. Perhaps this is connected in some way to the lack of real debate in the mainstream media of PO UK and what this may mean for our lives."

Until I stumbled across the Peak Oil problem 3½ short months ago, I had no idea of the importance of energy. I'd never wondered how we'd managed to reduce agrarian employment from 85% of the population to 4%. I hadn't realised that when we measure increases in GDP, we're merely measuring our annual increase in the use of fossil fuels.

Our parents thought that we had it easy compared to them. I think my kids have it easy compared to me. Why is this so? Because we have replaced our work with fossil fuel work. In the West, few of us in paid employment now do any real work. We sell services to each other. "I'll mow your lawn if you coiff my hair." We're all rich and bored so we take "retail therapy" and watch "Desperate Housewifes". I'm almost 50 and I remember a time when it wasn't quite like this. My children simply don't know any different.

It is unreal.

But it may not be for that much longer.

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Gets IT on March 7, 2006 - 2:00am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
Sorry, I didn't write this.  I just moved it over here for Writerman.  I forgot to explain that.
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