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Dave Cohen on October 6, 2005 - 6:43pm

Suggesting a change of subjects from some recent threads, we might talk about peak oil...

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Descolada on October 6, 2005 - 9:27pm

Talking about purely about Peak Oil is a pretty narrow range, don't you think? It's pretty much been decided by anyone that knows what they're talking about it will happen. So, isn't it appropriate we talk both about the fallout, so we can prepare ourselves for it, and the causes long-term and short, so we don't repeat it in the distant future?

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Dave Cohen on October 6, 2005 - 9:31pm

Actually, I agree mostly with your comment. My remark was a bit "tongue in cheek". But I can't agree that "it's pretty much been decided by anyone that knows what they're talking about it will happen...". Most people in the mainstream still think we're nuts...

best,

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Descolada on October 6, 2005 - 9:59pm

I suppose I'm just a pessimist, but I generally don't consider the mainstream competent. =D

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Peak Oil Primers

“This order [i.e. capitalism] is now bound to the technical and economic conditions of machine production which today determine the lives of all the individuals who are born into this mechanism, not only those directly concerned with the economic acquisition, with irresistible force. Perhaps it will so determine them until the last ton of fossilized coal is burnt.”

—Max Weber, 1905