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How did we get into this world dominated by consumerism?

I think convenience is another very strong driver. And convenience in doing convenient things. And so on.

It is a race for the least poss ...

CARVER,

I like the idea that peak oil change might provide a new age of pleasurable experiences. (I very much like gardening, that is pretty sure to become a neccessity.)

I only fear it will be ...

What level of quality of life do you regard as sufficient?

Economic growth and all its accompanying industrial structure ultimately are supposed to have only one aim: To satisfy someone's needs and ...

Just some wild, probably immature and silly thoughts:

For a while I have been thinking that order comes as a side-effect of the entropic thrust. All forces have an anti-force. Action an reaction. M ...

So again, what is your (the current contributors to this forum) position concerning the original question?

Use up all remeaining oil as quickly as possible in order to speed collapse and therefore ...

Oowolf,

I cannot really follow your numbers for sustainable population.

Sustainable population is mainly dependend on availability of arable land and its productivity.

See [URL=http://http:// ...

Leanan,

Denmark, albeit a small country with lots of windy shores, generates a huge percentage of it's electricity (up to 41% in west Denmark) from wind.

Germany, a far larger country with relat ...

I think there is a lot of "mindless" direct waste of energy going on: light bulbs being lit with no one in the room, lots of electrial appliances in Standby mode, driving where a little walk would do ...

Some qualitative thoughts on how high prices will go after PO:

The basic rule: Price is a means to match supply and demand. If there is high demand, but little supply (as in PO), prices go up to th ...

I am not convinced that economies of scale won't help the alternative energy sources. Yes, today oil is almost anything, but a large part of the production cost of technology is the r&d depreciati ...

To Monte: do you think that neither behaviour will save any people's lives and that the only option is to look after your "pocket of reason"?

I do understand the lilypond riddle such as it means th ...

Monte, I can't see how Liebig's law really affects my argument - assuming that as soon as we have a crash with lots of people starving,

a) there will be less people who can actually reproduce, so f ...

I have a difficult question for you peak oilers:

What is a good ethical behaviour in our time:

1. Try to use as little energy as possible
2. Use as much energy as possible

The choice seems o ...

Leading German Quality Paper "Die Zeit" launched te following article on its web site: [url=http://www.zeit.de/2004/44/oelpreis]link Enjoy, if you can read German!

From the New York Times:

After his remarks, Bush opened it up for questions, and someone asked what he's going to do about energy policy with worldwide oil reserves predicted to peak.
Bush said: ...