David, I agree that paying attention to global warming and peaking oil production are not mutually exclusive, but given the limited capabilities of our politicians and the limited attention span and science literacy of most people, it's hard to emphasize two big "scientific" things at once.
So consider these two options: 1. We focus on global warming and continue the present trend of not noticing the imminent energy crunch. We will continue several more years of political mucking about and witnessing ridiculous pseudo debates and maybe get a wholly-inadequate resolution to "do something". Then the energy crunch slams into us from our blind spot and we are caught entirel unprepared. 2. We focus on the oil and gas production peaks. The imminence of them scares people and politicians enough to reduce consumption, re-localize economies, and prepare for a reduced-energy future. When the crunch starts to bite into us noticably, society is psychologically prepared and has begun the needed changes. This will reduce the likelihood of chaos, and expose the truth behind our expensive and aggressive foreign policy. Bonus: reduced fossil fuel burning (by choice and forced by economic recession) mitigates global warming better than any half-baked political agreements. (Although coal will come back with a vengeance for a while - it already is.) JG > JG > > I don't see these as mutually exclusive and > hopefully the > technological development and conservation spawned > by the latter will > help to obviate the former. > > > On Mar 30, 2007, at 7:32 AM, joseph gathman wrote: > > > We need to stop worrying about global warming and > > start figuring out how we will cope with an > economic > > collapse driven by the inability of fuel supply to > > keep up with demand. > > David Bryant > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > 978-697-6123 ____________________________________________________________________________________ Bored stiff? Loosen up... Download and play hundreds of games for free on Yahoo! Games. http://games.yahoo.com/games/front
