Jerry Falwell, Jimmy Swaggert, Pat Robertson ….. you name it, they all preach compelling tales regarding their very limited take of the Bible and it focuses much on doom & gloom threats of Hell and how you will find yourself squarely in the middle of it for eternity if you don’t listen to them, while others don’t see Hell at all in the Bible and interpret things much differently. Same for the Qur’an, same for Peak Oil.
C.T. Russell, founder of the Jehovah’s Witnesses preached the end of the world for years but those prophesies were quickly reinterpreted when the end of the world did not come.
Many prominent people supposedly in the know preached the end of the world December 31 1999 @ 1 second after 11:59 pm but the end of the world did not come.
Some preach doom & gloom on the ramifications of Peak Oil just like Jerry, Jimmy, & Pat do for the Bible, but just like Jerry, Jimmy, & Pat, they only preach what backs up their version of doom & gloom where others look at Peak Oil and see things very differently.
Preaching things like “EROEI” {Energy Returned On Energy Invested) & “Scalability” sound very impressive but only too those who cannot conceive the BiGG picture. The doom regarding “EROEI” {Energy Returned On Energy Invested) has already been debunked with existing technology using biomass waste for one thing. Scalability is a joke as its no harder implementing biomass technology along with all the other current technologies then it was implementing oil technology.
So we build biomass plants like we built oil refineries, yawn ….lots of jobs & money will be created in a new era just like they were in the past. Some move forward, some stay stuck in the past. Some spent years preaching how the horseless carriage could never replace the horse and some were seeing air conditioned horseless carriages along with all the other amenities the horse could never provide.
Economies cannot change overnight and there is no need for them to change overnight. Those only seeing doom have no idea what leading 6+ billion people is all about and how it’s done. In a nutshell, it’s done slowly and concisely just like what is happening today with energy for a reason. We are in the middle of replacing infrastructure on a grand scale which takes time but its happening nonetheless and will continue until none of use need a drop of antiquated oil for anything.
No need for all the doom & gloom some preach as simply looking around one can quickly & easily find many others that see things in a much greater light and have their own set of “facts” backing them up. Those facts are the realities of today, not some pipedream some others make them out to be.
Look around people, yes you may see a recession or depression in your lifetime but realty says you will be driving your cars & enjoy all of the other luxuries we now know + many more till you die short of something like nuclear war. The return to the Stone Age ain’t happenin’. Look at what the
United States &
Great Briton alone are in the middle of and start looking everyplace else you can think of as I’m sure you will see much besides the doom & gloom the naysayer’s preach.