Thing is, there are two, I kind of want to call them ‘attractors’ working here. Population keeps increasing, oil (and gas etc) supply dwindles as demand increases, there isn’t enough land to use solar/biomass to keep present standard of living. The other one is that the oil (and gas etc) lasts long enough to totally [...]
Monthly Archives: July 2007
‘Market Forces will save us’
July 8, 2007 – 12:41 pm
Some people want to rely on the panacea capabilities of ‘markets.’ Is this a reasonable hope? Global markets will clearly do something in response to climate change, significant changes in the availability of oil resources, soil erosion and so on. I think you’d have to be working from some kind of quasi-religious certainty to be [...]
Imagine for a moment …
July 8, 2007 – 12:04 pm
Imagine for a moment that it’s the second half of the 21st century. Oil is several $k a barrel in today’s prices and there isn’t nearly enough to go around. The global climate is several degrees hotter than it ought to be. Industrial agriculture very probably broke down catastrophically for a while there due to [...]
