asg70 wrote:donstewart wrote:http://cassandralegacy.blogspot.com/201 ... iable.html
This article is just an excuse to rejigger an End of Suburbia narrative. The wishful thinking on display here is delusional. This quote is priceless:By far and large, most families living in Western suburbs still own at least one car. They have to, even though that means an increasingly heavy strain to the family's budget. But, as the current trends continue, there will come a moment in which owning a car will become a burden too heavy to carry for a non negligible fraction of the suburban population. Then what happens? Well, there are several possible ways for people to cope: biking, carpooling, using donkeys, move to the city to live in a shack made of discarded cardboard containers or, simply, go zombie and die.
Classic peak-oil would tell us that skyrocketing gas prices would be what leads us from SUVs to donkey carts, but now Ugo is somehow drawing a line between car-sharing services and....the zombie horde???
Ugo is a diehard doomer, amusing for an academic, and probably why he isn't out in the world working for a living. An academic in a country that convicts geologists for daring to let earthquakes happen.....talk about delusional, and he is part of THAT educational system?
asg70 wrote:This slippery-slope narrative that suggests that one day we won't even own our refrigerators is outright farcical.
You really take these things seriously? THIS is your best appeal to authority? And make a note of the subject header. Clogged with oil and we're still supposed to extrapolate end of suburbia?
Oh no Don would NEVER take this seriously, he is just investigating information....using THESE types of references. Talk about as intellectually dishonest as it gets...suggesting junk sources and pretending it is the readers fault for..you know...reading them and worse yet...THINKING about them.
asg70 wrote:Whatever happened to peak oil and good old fashioned price spikes and shortages?
peak oil happened and the world didn't end, so it becomes a rinse and repeat cycle. Or, alternatively, peak oil didn't happen, so of course it will happen tomorrow, and THEN the world will end. Believe first...always believe first....