Enough Already
2008-07-09 01:16:22 UTC
Cheap oil has enabled exponential population/economic growth over the
past century. It has fooled many into thinking everything is owed to
them. Cheap food transport made them think they could ignore local
carrying-capacity. The Green Revolution was more about oil than
chlorophyll, and it caused economic bloat that now can't be sustained.
I once read a black-box analogy where oil goes in and people come out.
Very close to the truth.
Could it be that high oil prices will force a global shift toward
frugality, causing a drop in birthrates among all classes?
Contraception is really the ultimate form of conservation. We don't
need more mindless consumers in this world. Most people only conserve
when money forces them out of their self-entitlement delusion.* They
are already slowing down on the road to save fuel.
Rising costs could force people to finally respect limits. They've
been ignoring the ecological need for it.
Of course that doesn't sit well with "conservatives" who think living
with less equates to personal failure. They see talk of conservation
as a liberal control conspiracy. Don't try to show them evidence of
finitude. It's all about take, take, take and trying to upstage other
shallow people. With so much greed-indoctrination from culture and
media, someone should invent a way to make frugality seem selfish.
E.A.
http://enough_already.tripod.com/
Nature gives you everything, yet owes you nothing.
* If a new cheap energy source is discovered (seems unlikely), people
would probably return to their tradition of mindless takings and
gluttony. So, here's to Peak Oil for now!
past century. It has fooled many into thinking everything is owed to
them. Cheap food transport made them think they could ignore local
carrying-capacity. The Green Revolution was more about oil than
chlorophyll, and it caused economic bloat that now can't be sustained.
I once read a black-box analogy where oil goes in and people come out.
Very close to the truth.
Could it be that high oil prices will force a global shift toward
frugality, causing a drop in birthrates among all classes?
Contraception is really the ultimate form of conservation. We don't
need more mindless consumers in this world. Most people only conserve
when money forces them out of their self-entitlement delusion.* They
are already slowing down on the road to save fuel.
Rising costs could force people to finally respect limits. They've
been ignoring the ecological need for it.
Of course that doesn't sit well with "conservatives" who think living
with less equates to personal failure. They see talk of conservation
as a liberal control conspiracy. Don't try to show them evidence of
finitude. It's all about take, take, take and trying to upstage other
shallow people. With so much greed-indoctrination from culture and
media, someone should invent a way to make frugality seem selfish.
E.A.
http://enough_already.tripod.com/
Nature gives you everything, yet owes you nothing.
* If a new cheap energy source is discovered (seems unlikely), people
would probably return to their tradition of mindless takings and
gluttony. So, here's to Peak Oil for now!