Louis wrote: > Look, by all admissions oil supplies as we have known them will > disappear toward the end of the 21st century. That has enormous social > and political consequences. Socialists are obviously overwhelmed by the > tasks of the conjuncture but we are obligated to think about how > humanity will survive in an epoch of declining resources. I think that > life can be a lot more pleasurable than it is today, even if that means > relinquishing private automobiles, tract housing and all the other > accouterments of post-WWII affluence.
I agree: life in a world aimed at minimizing the use of fossil fuels -- dumping Wal-Mart, etc. -- sounds pleasant. we can ignore the "peak oil" stuff while attacking global warming and making life more humane. -- Jim Devine / "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit." -- Aristotle.
