by ClubOfRomeII » Tue 15 Aug 2006, 00:12:23
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Look for the words, "relative to what it would have been."
It isn't about a scenario. It's the relative effect.
Okay, I did it, and still the entire thread is referenced rather than zooming in to find a single page. So instead of getting my info second hand, I went and rounded up Jevons work, made it through about the 8th paragraph and discovered this....
Jevons, Chapter 1, Paragraph 3, "The Coal Question"
"Coal in truth stands not beside but entirely above all other commodities. It is the material energy of the country—the universal aid—the factor in everything we do. With coal almost any feat is possible or easy; without it we are thrown back into the laborious poverty of early times."
OH...MY....GOD.
The universal aid! Thrown back into the poverty of early times!!
I swear to God I've read this same thing about oil on Kuntsler or Savinars site somewhere. Like they nearly plagarized it. I figured all the hoopla over Peak was a recent invention...here's this guy sweating out the same thing nearly 150 years ago!
The guy is tough reading though.