pstarr wrote:davep wrote:Jotapay wrote:Mos, the issue a lot of us have with the Time article (and the several dozen other articles about the IEA whistle blower story) is that it seems contrived. Time is a corporate behemoth. Nothing escapes its walls without careful planning and input from several sources. I work for one of the largest multi-national corporations the world has ever seen, I know how we roll. The fact that this Time article (1) was released less than 24 hours after the whistleblower story first surfaced, and (2) whose tone is also a 180 degree about-face from past negative stories on peak oil, is quite notable. I find it unbelievable that Time would be able to roll out a story that so differs from their past stances on Peak Oil in just a few hours.
The problem we have with this is not the mainstream's recognition of peak oil. It's that corporate interests are going to co-opt peak oil now. When an organic movement is co-opted by corporations, the best interests of the citizenry are never served. Corporations use the movement to further their own agenda and generate more profits for themselves under the guise of being "good". It looks like this is going to be used to push treaties like the Copenhagen climate treaty which will severely limit national sovereignty and personal Liberty while increasing corporate and governmental control over our lives.
What we need is to move towards more localized, sustainable economies and communities. What will happen if peak oil is corporatized is that the decisions about human activity, energy usage and planning will be made by a handful of CEOs on a world-wide scale. Think of Mao in China during the cultural revolution as an analogy. I hate to sound like such a hippie but we need an organic movement to change our lives and deal with Peak Oil, not multinational corporations and SWAT teams using Peak Oil as another excuse to exercise more control over our lives.
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Me too.