EnergySpin wrote:MacG wrote:Irrelevant chaff! Peak in 2005? In 2040? Big deal? I simply don't understand this obsession with the exact year or even date. Coal, oil and NG is of fossile origin and WILL go in decline some year, much as we all will die one day. The problem I see is denial, both concerning the coming decline of fossile energy and concerning our own deaths from high age.
Everything could be so much easier if more people could accept these simple facts.
Yes MacG ... this is the problem. That's why they are called non-renewable :roll: And from my high horse , even if the peak were to happen in 2140 It would not make a difference. Climate change is the big bad wolf ... even the idea that we are still left a little bit more than we have already burned gives me the (bird) flu :twisted:
Actually, i quite agree that a civilization bent on consumption and prolonging life is actually the root of the problem. We have lost sight of what it is we are striving for; do you want to live forever and surround your life with greed? If so, the natural system around us will respond correspondingly regardless of whether we turn climate change around, or tame bird flu.
So from your vantage point high upon your horse you will see the horizon coming towards you, but is it the future that is going to kill US, or the fall?