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Leukemia is actually an interesting analogy, as it hits home. There are basically 4 classes of leukemia, 2 acute and 2 chronic. ALL is curable, with the best prognosis for children. AML is dismal. CML used to be terrible as well, but now we have a wonder drug that can essentially cure people with very few side effects (knock on wood after 5 years or so of experience). CLL is dismal as well but hits people mostly late in life and usually takes longer to progress.
So where are we on the oil prognosis scale? Are we a young enough culture that we can ward off the bad effects? Are we waiting for a wonder drug that will save us? 'Or will it be horrendous? Or will we slide slowly into oblivion?
Transportation, the circulatory system for our economy is killing our planets ability to support our life. Judging from the Arctic, we are in very serious trouble.
I believe we can make the change to sustainable infrastructure but it has to start immediately and on a vast scale. By vast I mean distributed, not centralized. Facing an overwhelming task, take the ant approach to eating an elephant, small bites, lots of friends.
Peak Oil and Global Warming have a distributed cause, the accumulated effects of each of our use of resources. The process of killing the civilization killers is distributed. I believe that culture is the mirror in which we see our selves. If we see self-reliance, we will pretend to be self-reliant, and then become more self-reliant.
If everyone planted a garden; if everyone stopped buying gas on Sunday; if everyone rode a bike to work 1 day a month; if everyone wasted less, the impact would be a shift in behavior and then a shift in ethics. Waste would be equated to sloth, guttony and other vices.
Local action is the solution. Make an economic lifeboat for your economic community. Like the solution is like that of Black Death of the 14th Century, kill the rats and do not live in your own waste; end congestion and do not live in your own waste. They could not see microorganisms, we cannot see CO2. Both matter. Kill a disease by ending the cause and transmitter.