Wake Up, America. We're Driving Toward Disaster. - washingtonpost.com - The Diigo Meta page

• 20 Jan 10
  

  Christopher Porter

  peakoil economics culture

• 08 Nov 09
  

  Matt Landahl

  kunstler

• 26 Mar 09
  

  Andy Williams

  politics economics environment culture technology economy sustainability

• 18 Sep 08
  

  Brendan Rohan

  I have been reading about the potential of Peak Oil and it scares me. I would like to think that we are planning for the day (that could be here in the next few years) when the oil supply will dwindle and we'll be at two or three hundred dollars a barrel.

  prognosticate

• 26 May 08
  

  Alfredo Narváez

  food crisis peak oil future civilization

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  Jon Aston

  This is bang on the money,

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  Graham Jones

  GRAND DELUSION

  energy environment oil

• 25 May 08
  

  usa environment earth

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  Robert Paterson

  Everywhere I go these days, talking about the global energy predicament on the college lecture circuit or at environmental conferences, I hear an increasingly shrill cry for "solutions." This is just another symptom of the delusional thinking that now grips the nation, especially among the educated and well-intentioned.
  
  I say this because I detect in this strident plea the desperate wish to keep our "Happy Motoring" utopia running by means other than oil and its byproducts. But the truth is that no combination of solar, wind and nuclear power, ethanol, biodiesel, tar sands and used French-fry oil will allow us to power Wal-Mart, Disney World and the interstate highway system -- or even a fraction of these things -- in the future. We have to make other arrangements.

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  Colin Brosnan

  energy politics economics oil environment culture consumerism society Technology

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  Robert Reed

  energy politics technology

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  harry palmer

  dumb-us sick-us consumerism petrol-heads cars energy oil hello-oblivion

  • Years ago, U.S. negotiators at a U.N. environmental conference told their interlocutors that the American lifestyle is "not up for negotiation." This stance is, unfortunately, related to two pernicious beliefs that have become common in the United States in recent decades. The first is the idea that when you wish upon a star, your dreams come true. (Oprah Winfrey advanced this notion last year with her promotion of a pop book called "The Secret," which said, in effect, that if you wish hard enough for something, it will come to you.) One of the basic differences between a child and an adult is the ability to know the difference between wishing for things and actually making them happen through earnest effort.
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  john neat

  economypost3

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