I'm reading John Varley's Slow Apocalypse. The premise is that all un-processed petroleum is destroyed by an act of bio-terrorism. In the middle of it right now, but so far it's scaring the spit out of me.
john On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 5:26 PM, <medieva...@aol.com> wrote: > ** > > Twas in Last And First Men, by Olaf Stapledon, I think, where all future > civilizations had their power based upon alcohol. Nothing stored from the > past was left. > > > In a message dated 11/29/2012 12:58:45 P.M. US Mountain Standard Tim, > net_democr...@yahoo.com writes: > > The measure of a civilization could be said to be it's consumption of > energy and how it uses resources. Conspicuous v. sustainable... > > _______________________________________________ > http://box535.bluehost.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l_mccmedia.com > > > _______________________________________________ > http://box535.bluehost.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l_mccmedia.com > > >
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