Originally Posted by Bekologist
re: the harper's "Peak Oiler" article.....
"Yet, try as one might, the Peak Oilers cannot be dismissed as madmen in sandwich boards. Petroleum is inarguably a limited resource; it may peak tomorrow or it may peak a few decades from tomorrow, but the peak is inevitable."
.....is a taut chart of how the current scenario of energy is NOT going to work in the post peak world.
Well done expositional nonfiction about a compelling 'current event'.
I agree with your synopsis Bek. It's just a shame that when we start to feel the pinch from Peak oil most folks will ask why didn't anyone tell them this was going to happen. In the same way that folks were surprised when New Orleans was flooded by a hurricane. If I die tomorrow in a massive Los Angeles earthquake most folks will not be too sympathetic. I've been warned and it is personal risk that I am taking by living here. Same with the US and it's oil hungry economy, everyone's been warned and yet we are all still going to be screwed. The people I worry about are the poor in our country and abroad who barely eke out a living now and do not have any additional resources to prepare for the coming problems.
How do you put up a solar system or a windmill if you don't even have access to fresh water?