It goes without saying that the Sandwichman agrees. The Jevons paradox is the kicker here. Yes, we can produce cleaner energy... and the cleaner we can make it the more we'll use. Yes, we can increase energy efficiency... and the more efficient we make our machines the more of them we'll build. For an eloquent demonstration of what needs to be done and why, please view Peter Victor's lecture summarizing his book, Managing Without Growth: http://tiny.cc/MWG
The question of "people facing in the wrong direction" is a fascinating one and something I've been intensely interested in for about 30 years. It is by no means a random happening. People somehow "know" to face in the wrong direction without being explicitly told. They come up with all sorts of half-assed rationales for why the taboo solution can't work. I use the people facing in the wrong direction phenomenon as a kind of homing device for detecting historical truth. On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 10:57 AM, Eugene Coyle <[email protected]> wrote: > The responses to climate change are all from people facing in the wrong > direction. The issue is not how to get clean energy, it is "How do we > reduce the need for energy?" And the answer lies in cutting consumption > through cutting hours of work. It can at the same time correct the US > income distribution. This is scalable and at the same time is the only US > policy that can positively affect developing countries. -- Sandwichman _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
