"Peak Oil Day" dodges political roots of crisis

We’re all for bicycles and a transition to a post-carbon economy. But a big problem with the Peaksters’ geological determinism is that, blind to political root causes, it dodges the political imperatives for the transition. The oil economy fuels endless war and is bringing on cataclysmic climate change. These would be more than sufficient imperative for the post-carbon transition even if we weren’t running out. By making the issue “scarcity,” the Peaksters reduce the argument to a sterile debate between experts, with the public—and issues of ecological survival, and war and peace—relegated to a sideshow. And when Peaksters (or Apocalyptoids or Malthusians) wager predictions against the petro-Utopians and Cornucopians, the results can sometimes be counterintuitive—as we have seen.
The problem, ultimately, is not scarcity. It is petro-oligarchical rule.

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