by AdamB » Wed 07 Mar 2018, 15:24:19
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('asg70', 'H')einberg is a bright guy but the worst thing he did was light the match on the "peak oil caused the credit crisis" meme in 2008. That spurious talking-point has done more harm to peak oil credibility than anything he did to build it up in the first place.
I sort of liked his left wing Pol-Pot fascism angle myself. The government must force everyone to the farms to be Amish, because OH NOES!!!! WEEZ ALL GONNA DIE!!!!
Sort of like Harold Camping, except from a amateur violin playing stoner angle.
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')Also, his Blackout book already feels anachronistic in fearmongering about coal supply when soon after it was published, electricity generation started shifting over to fracked gas.
I haven't been through that one. Does he know any more about coal geology and resources than he does oil and natural gas?