[lit-ideas] Fossil fuel depletion

[Andy <min.erva@xxxxxxxxx>]

I've heard it said that in keeping with human unwillingness to change, that 
when (it's unknown when), people start to feel an actual impact of oil 
depletion that they will move very quickly to make major changes, the way Pearl 
Harbor motivated WWII.  So things may not be all that dire, and sky high prices 
are a good thing.  Actually, I've heard it said too that the next economic 
bubble will be in alternative energy technology.  
   
  Also, peak oil adherents poo poo climate change as in the far distant future. 
 But from what I've been reading, climate change is a lot closer than was 
predicted and potentially much more devastating.  Peak oil will change the way 
we live, once the dust settles, to a more simple , possibly more satisfying 
lifestyle, but climate change can quite literally change the earth itself 
physically such that it may become inhospitable.  Climate change is the issue 
that really needs to be addressed, and ironically the way to address it is by 
developing alternative fuels.  We all need to be riding bicycles, truly.  
Warren Buffet is investing in rail after all.  The higher oil prices go, the 
better off we're all going to be in the end.  
   
   

       
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