Carrol Cox wrote:
And worse -- it doesn't make any difference. I have never, _once_, seen a hint of a suggestion by peak-oil freaks of how the view can be embodied in actual political practice. My own view is that those who push the peak-oil thesis are actually quite frightened of doing any actual political work and are desperately looking around for a quick fix which will take us to heaven without any effort. Even if the peak oil thesis is true it has no political relevance.
The people who write about peak oil tend to be geologists, so I am not sure how much potential there is for activism to begin with. In any case, all of these questions from declining fish stocks to global warming *do* have political relevance. They pose the question of how society should be organized. Marx wrote about soil fertility in the 1870s. What was the political relevance of that?
