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Re: Peak Oil is a Myth (Score: 0)
by Guest on Tuesday, May 18 @ 22:34:27 PDT
After spending an awful lot of time investigating the peak of oil production, I actually agree with much of what the original post in this thread was saying. There is a shrill and despairing quality about many of the writings I've found. Case in point is dieoff.com ... but for as much as Jay Hanson's writing is entertaining, it is also repetitive and, I detect, misanthropic. Still, I think he is basically right about peak oil (and about economists). But I think he is probably wrong about a neo-Malthusian die-off. I won't go into why I disagree here. It seems a bit premature: we don't have to go off the deep end and predict the absolute worst as Hanson does. Suffice to say that at the very least, we'll have a recession -- which the original post here concedes. A serious economic downturn is worth worrying about, and preparing for in all the ways that have been suggested as dealing with peak oil. Drive a hybrid car, insulate your house, get some benefit from passive solar, move closer to work. These are all worthwhile no matter if the consequences of oil depletion are a 1979-level recession or the end of industrial civilization.


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