On 7/9/2012 11:00 AM, Robert Naiman wrote: > http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/jul/02/peak-oil-we-we-wrong
> We have confused threats to the living planet with threats to > industrial civilisation. They are not, in the first instance, the same > thing. Industry and consumer capitalism, powered by abundant oil > supplies, are more resilient than many of the natural systems they > threaten. The great profusion of life in the past – fossilised in the > form of flammable carbon – now jeopardises the great profusion of life > in the present. > Peak oil is not about the disappearance of oil per se but about increasing risks due to the exhaustion of traditional sources in places like East Texas. The oil shale boom is a looming environmental disaster and a necessary outcome of peak oil in terms understood by experts such as Michael Klare. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
