Yule Heibel on 2009-01-18
Why? It's not as if the 'need' for personal mobility devices (automobiles of some sort) will disappear overnight.
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16 Jan 09
Yule HeibelI despise the way JH Kunstler has managed to make what should be well-placed criticism of the system into an ideological cult that's infused with hocus-pocus and now - egad! - "neo-medievalism" and celebrating the failure of "the Enlightenment mental model." There's so much wrong with his approach that the kernels of usefulness (which are there) get lost. If you listened to Kunstler, you'd never know about all the good work that is being done. Furthermore, does he really think that personal mobility devices (i.e., some form of car) are going to disappear? So why trash the Rocky Mountain Institute - or why trash NASA because it's not focused on teaching Americans how to garden? Aside from that, anyone who "predicts" the future ought to be taken with a bucket of salt.
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the Rocky Mountain Institute, supposedly an "environmental" organization, has put its cred and muscle behind the development of a "hypercar." What fucking idiocy.
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Of course, I'm not anti tech or anti science
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Yule Heibel on 2009-01-18
ha!
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Just look at the assholes in NASA who are still fantasizing about space travel when we need to teach tens of millions of Americans how to garden!
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Yule Heibel on 2009-01-18
This is just stupid. People can teach *themselves* how to garden and grow food - you don't need top-level NASA scientists putting their brains behind something like that. Let those scientists do what they do best, and empower people to teach themselves the things that can be learned autodidactically.
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15 Jan 09
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