Mos-Good catch on that Time article
For a journalist to write such a concise article in just a few hours from the Guardian report shows amazing insight, dare I say, the kind of insight not seen since the Dallas Police captured Oswald in the movie theater. In case you missed the
profile link mos posted, her profile credits her as a "seasoned foreign correspondent."
This is not a leak by disgruntled scientists or executives. This is a planned presentation.
In order to arrest BAU and head down the path required to forestall self destruction in the time available, a sharp change in the way we use energy and resources is needed, or as Dr O would say, an Inflection Point.
I mentioned earlier that a critical climate report should show up in the next few weeks. I forgot about the Copenhagen conference. Out of this conference will come the critical Climate Change Documentation and agreement that will forever be changing our lives. The debate over climate change is dead. Whether or not we are changing the climate is unimportant. Officially, Climate Change is the enemy and we have to defeat it at all costs.
We've known all along that the government had a plan. We've been putting together the pieces as best we could with the information available. We've known the govt/TPTB could not talk about Peak Oil in the mainstream because it would bring panic, revolt, collapse and crisis to all parts of the globe and pose an obstacle to mitigation strategies. The govts/TPTB did well in covering their arses and holding things together while they formulated their plan. Now that the pieces are in place, they can present it to the world.
We're Here, We're Peak Oil, Get Used To Us!
If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face--for ever."
-George Orwell, 1984
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twenty centuries of stony sleep were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle, and what rough beast, its hour come round at last, slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
-George Yeats