Carmakers' next problem: Generation Y
11-23-10, 04:01 AM
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What I worry about more than peak oil, not that it isn’t an important issue even if Miller and Hubbert, not sure of the name, both were predicting it in the 70s. I sort of worry about what will happen if we try to extract the shale oil from Canada and other places and it causes problems from the steam assisted gravity process they will use. Addicted people will go extremes to feed their addiction.
My touch stones over the years have been:
1. Zero Population Growth when I thought it had a chance of being accepted. But only the developed world even gives a nod to it.
2.The problems and solutions for heat Islands. It was a big concern when I was in college by my more liberal environmental professors.
3. And the destruction of our rain forests. The lungs of earth are being destroyed faster than we can replace any form of green belt.
My touch stones over the years have been:
1. Zero Population Growth when I thought it had a chance of being accepted. But only the developed world even gives a nod to it.
2.The problems and solutions for heat Islands. It was a big concern when I was in college by my more liberal environmental professors.
3. And the destruction of our rain forests. The lungs of earth are being destroyed faster than we can replace any form of green belt.
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11-23-10, 07:29 AM
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Thanks for sharing Aaron. I'd never come across his writings before, but will be looking for them.
11-23-10, 09:50 AM
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The destruction of the environment to get to the alternate process oils is part of peak oil. The destruction of rain forests and other environment is leading to the Global Climate Change. Unfortunately human nature being what it is, we won't change until disaster strikes. By then it will be too late, and people thought that dinosaurs were dumb...
Aaron
+1 How true this is.
Aaron
+1 How true this is.
