"And he hammers home the idea that we can cut our consumption of natural resources without diminishing our standard of living. "A lot of our consumption is wasteful," he says, pointing out that Germany maintains higher living standards than the United States while consuming half as much oil per capita."
_________________ Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe. H. G. Wells.
Fatih Birol's motto: leave oil before it leaves us.
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Posted: Wed Jun 14, 2006 9:57 am Post subject: Re: 'Collapse' Jared Diamond
I'm about one third done. So far the archeology and ecology rate excellent, but since I've been absorbing it through a filter of Peak Oil consciousness and a general pessimism about human nature the book has been not entirely enjoyable. The bleak hopelessness that I've gotten used to after years of being a Peak Oiler swells unbearably and I find it hard to read on.
The cornicopian technofetishist I was before learning of Peak Oil would have just laughed at the "stupid primitives" that did themselves in. Modern-day pseudo-collapses like the Soviet Union or North Korea can easily be dismissed as examples of poor leadership/principles if you choose to ignore resource depletion. _________________ "He who makes no mistakes isn't trying hard enough" Genghis Khan
"Everyone here is bribed not to kill each other." foodnotlawns
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