Peak Oil: A New Paradigm Suggested Pt 1 – Peak Oil Matters.
The author, a graduate student at Queen’s University in Belfast, Ireland, offered a very nice, highly idealistic assessment of what must happen as the effects of and impact from a diminishing supply of fossil fuel takes hold worldwide. While some will surely scoff at the notion of revising every major notion of current national and international economic conduct and theory, absent such a monumental shift in perspective and belief, there’s little doubt that a great deal of needless hardships and unwelcome sacrifices await us all.
I rarely engage in anything approaching the doom-and-gloom forecasts which are more often attributed to peak oil advocates than is the reality. I’m an optimist and yes, an idealist at heart. That has always struck me as a better perspective than to approach a challenge half-defeated before I begin.
Those who choose to remain either clueless about or in denial of the energy supply challenges caused by depletion of finite resources will continue to do what they do: deny, dispute, mislead, distract as many others as they can recruit in order to preserve their own Business As Usual and the current rewards that may bring.
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