Peak Oil: AIDS, Addiction and Opportune Infections

So what do we know now about peak oil at the dawn of 06?

That we’re peaking and presently in the end of cheap oil phase. That energy prices will continue to rise or that we will enter a phony war period of improved supply. I’ll leave it to the experienced geologists, economists and business futurists to forecast supply and prices, and hopefully detail the probable shape of the peak. Instead I’ll use AIDS as an analogy for how we should be reacting:
“You’ve got AIDS.”

“Oh no Doc, I’m going to die from AIDS!!!”

“Not necessarily. There is now a proven treatment regime to treat AIDS. But the real problem is your lifestyle and your wider health. And the immediate danger isn’t AIDS but a range of opportune infections and cancers that will take advantage of your weakened immune system and could kill you long before AIDS will.”

Americans (and citizens of developed countries) have a lifestyle problem.James Kunstler has articulated it in one sentence ” It is a living arrangement which has no future. It represents the greatest misallocation of resources in the history of the world.”

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