by KaiserJeep » Mon 16 Apr 2018, 20:48:29
Ruppert WAS in fact an effective rabble rouser. I was quite astonished to view his documentary opus Collapse, that was what brought the concept of Peak Oil into my conciousness in 2010.
It took me a little while to understand that as a functioning social person he was marginal at best. He appeared to be much admired for his insights, but he could concieve of no scenario other than fast crash, and predicted imminent and approaching collapse several times. When his final prediction did not materialize, he ate a bullet.
By then I had formed my own opinion, which is that a system of 7.5+ billion people does not do anything abruptly. It will slowly decline, perhaps not as slowly as it grew, but certainly over a few decades. The Long Emergency expresses it best, and may possibly be the only true insight Kunstler ever had.
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