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just to reemphasize :
"Our lifestyle is totally dependent on cheap oil."
the addiction term clinically means;
DEPENDENT.
& i don't think it's addicted to oil; but our systems are dependent[addicted to] on 'cheap' oil.
we are just getting the slack[time lag] out of many parts of our system.
Transitioning from oil to 'alternatives' might be compared to making a transition from morphine to aspirin for 'pain management'.
Which of course would work just fine if we were a ways down the road to recovery, However...
Just to push back against one-word psychology diagnoses. We are all apparently addicted to
-food
-oxygen
-sunlight
-the earth's magnetosphere
-photosynthesis
-vitamin C, etc.
-water
-shelter
-sensory stimulation
-human interaction
The addiction metaphor, when used beyond throw-away rhetoric, is just another way of lazy thinking that makes us more stupid. Ah but perhaps we like the term because it allows us to place blame and guilt and to denigrate other people. No?
Stop calling fellow TODs lazy and stupid. It's rude.
The vehement objections to the addiction metaphor are astonishing. Use of the addict metaphor is a health field term not a political or criminal one and does not necessarily imply the negative judgements [blame, guilt, denigration] that you assume it does.