Eugene Coyle wrote: > Many on the left have made the incorrect conclusion that "peak > oil" advocates are also leftists. My own judgement is that most are > apolitical. What the rest are is difficult to discern.
the political impact of impending "peak oil" is extremely ambiguous, so I'd bet that people predicting (or even hoping for) peak oil would be found all across the political spectrum. It could cause humanity to wake up and decide to drop oil as a source of energy. Or it could cause the fall of existing nation-states, leading to civil wars, wars between countries, revolutions, etc. Those could go either way, toward right-wing or left-wing politics. Likely, I'd guess, the results would go in a right-wing direction because of the austerity that would likely be required (imposing extra taxes and the like on working people). There was an article in HARPER'S awhile back that suggested that a lot of the peak oil believers are survivalists, not a left-wing crowd. -- Jim Devine / "Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your own way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
