[lit-ideas] Peak Oil - More disturbing than OBL
- From: Eric Yost <eyost1132@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 08 Apr 2006 19:50:15 -0400
Simon: Think about it Eric!
Yeah I have. Understand that the Oil Script
explains not only Bush's move into Iraq, but also
explains why France's Total Petrofina was there
first, and the reason why the French and Germans
obstructed UN involvement in the invasion. It
explains why China and Russia are so timid about
Iran, as well as China's sudden military buildup
of a "blue water" Navy to defend its oil shipping
routes. It explains a lot of current politics,
anti-US sentiment, alliances like Venezuela-China,
and so on.
Throughout the West (not just the US) an abrupt
cut off in oil supply would cause death and
suffering for millions of people. Hospitals,
ambulances, police, economy...all shutting
down...riots, militias, criminal
gangs...starvation, martial law, epidemics, no
pharmaceutical production, no heating, etc.--all
part of the scenarios.
Even with a relatively "soft landing" there are
major problems for all developed nations. You
might like EF Schumacher's _Small is Beautiful:
economics as if people mattered_, which diagnosed
this problem and proposed solutions decades ago.
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