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Peak Oil: Another Look At Infrastructure
“All solutions must work on a world scale. China and India will not accept a lower standard of living than we have, and will not reduce their coal burning and car usage if we demand that we all keep our cars and run our a/c any time we get warm. Neither will Russia. No narrative that includes the underlying idea that we’re going to keep using more energy than most other people can possible address climate change – period.”
We are at the dawn of an era of incredible opportunity if we choose and act wisely, and as a community, but we must first accept the realization that we are facing some serious challenges in the near future. We’re responsible for what we’ve created, just as we are responsible for resolving the problems our successes (and excesses) have brought us. We may indeed never again enjoy the levels of growth, prosperity, and successes that have defined our past. But this is not to say that we can’t craft new measures of success and prosperity going forward.
“The great transition of the 21st century will entail enormous adjustments on the part of every individual, family, and community, and if we are to make those adjustments successfully, we will need to plan rationally. Implications and strategies will have to be explored in nearly every area of human interest—agriculture, transportation, global ware and peace, public health, resource management, and on and on.”
3 Comments on "Peak Oil: Another Look At Infrastructure"
Stu on Sat, 17th Jul 2010 8:21 am
You’re right, we won’t keep using more energy then the rest of the world. We will just eliminate the rest of the world so we can have it all. Lets see, the western civilisation uses about 50 mbpd. World production is about 85 mbpd and expected to do into decline soon. So we pull out the nukes…..have a big war……knock em all back into the stone age….take possession of all their coal, oil and gas fields with our military…..and party on using 50 or more mbpd for the next 200 years. Hey, we can also kill off all the old, sick disabled, mentally inferior, lazy, blacks, faggots, lesos, communists, feminists, etc etc. Probably get our consumption down to about 25 mbpd and be able to run our SUVs and air cons 24/7 for the next 500 years.
Maybe instead of killing them off we can enslave them as power generating slaves living like battery hens, in cubicals hundreds of stories high peddling generators with electrodes hooked up to their testicals that give them massive shocks of they fall below as certain output. Over generations through genetic engineering and unnatural selection we could breed a super generator peddling race of power slaves. All our sewage could be refined and fed to them through stomack tubes and all body parts not used in the energy peddling process could be cut out saving all oxygen and nutrients for peddling. As soon as they grow old to the point where their output is freqently falling below the electric shock threshold, they are dumped into the sewage refining vats to be processed into feed stock for the other slaves. Waste not want not. The new American way. Hey I think I’m really on to something here.
KenZ300 on Sat, 17th Jul 2010 11:56 pm
China is quickly developing an alternative energy economy. They are looking at the business and investment ideas of the future. Their investment in wind, solar and biofuels is growing rapidly. China plans to be the supplier of these technologies to the world.
All auto manufacturers are looking to produce electric vehicles with zero emissions for the Chinese market. The Chinese government is mandating efficiency standards.
It looks like the Chinese leadership is planning for the business and markets of the future. Is the rest of the world doing long term or short term planning?
US business and politicians looks to short term plans and quarterly profits.
We need some long term planning.
Steve on Sun, 18th Jul 2010 4:36 am
If we can transition to something like a nuclear fusion powered hydrogen/electricity economy with maybe a billion or two earth population everyone can have a great standard of living.