Strelnikov_
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Tue Aug-30-05 11:27 PM
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"Katrina Is A Pretty Good Metaphor For Peak Oil" |
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http://www.lifeaftertheoilcrash.net/BreakingNews.htmlI'll add that the response to Katrina is a pretty good metaphor for Peak Oil:
1. With any degree of pre-planning, this would never have happened in the first place. Who would be so so stupid to build a city below sea level where you you have to pump the water out? This is worse than building your house on a foundation of sand. (Yes, I know it was the French in the first place).
Building a civilization on a constantly increasing supply of finite energy resources is equally stupid.
2. There were numerous individuals who had warned us of this. What did the government do? Ignore them and slash the budget for planning to deal with this type of thing.
3. Once the crisis was unfolding, the poor and vulnerable were hustled into a camp. Had people been a little more willing to cooperate (anybody ever hear of carpooling your way out of the danger zone?) or had city officials commandered some damn buses, there wouldn't have been lord knows how many people stuck in the freakin Superdome.
In other words, there were ways to mitigate the crisis that were perfectly technically viable but weren't implemented because they would weren't in line with our atomized culture.
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Tue Aug-30-05 11:58 PM
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1. I'm not convinced we know how Peak Oil will play out. n/t |
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