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  Thank you hapa

  Thanks for saying it. I completely agree. It's obvious that this whole compromise with capitalism thing did not work. And it's not going to work.
  My favorite line of Speth's was : We need to challenge consumerism.
  He's just now figuring this out? Presumable people have been paying him for his thinking over the years. I hope they don't feel too bad about wasting their money like that. Or Roberts in investing his time interviewing a clown like this. It's obvious that this guy (good bureaucratic player as he is) is just sensing a change in the wind and tacking to get a little more "green" in his sails.
  On Gus Speth chats about his new book and increasingly radical green views posted 1 year, 5 months ago 28 Responses

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  State run transit systems

  What kind of ignorance is this? It's the state that builds roads and all the other infrastructure needed to support cars.
  Railroads, at least in the U.S. are privately owned. So are (or were) many bus and streetcar companies. It's the car that deprives the people of freedom and allows the state to control transportation. Pedestrians aren't required to show their papers, drivers are. Cars are constrained to go only in certain places, at certain speeds, and are required to arbitrarily stop and go. And you've got to pay every time you use one.
  Cars are not only hegemonic, they're dictatorial. traffic lights train you to be an easily controlled moron.
  On It's shifting consumer demand that will drive increases in vehicle fuel efficiency posted 1 year, 5 months ago 25 Responses

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  Car hegemony

  "not that people should do without cars altogether"
  This is where people like Krugman (and many others) really don't get it. Cars are a hegemonic technology. They don't co-exist with other methods of transportation, they drive it out. If you don't believe this, just try walking along any 4 or 6 lane road in your vicinity. Or biking along it. Or waiting for the bus along it. Cars take up space, they degrade the environment severely. They're dangerous and threatening. They allow the rich to push aside the poor.
  One of the major efforts of environmentalists should be to break the hegemony of the car completely. Do away with them completely and never let them return.
  On It's shifting consumer demand that will drive increases in vehicle fuel efficiency posted 1 year, 5 months ago 25 Responses

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  Lifestyle choices

  "I flew down to Pasadena today for the Fortune Brainstorm: Green conference."

  Wow. We really ARE doomed.On Fortune Brainstorm Green posted 1 year, 6 months ago 4 Responses

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  It's pretty clear.

  Judging from what is written by Joseph Romm, it's pretty clear that nothing substantial (correction, make that nothing at all) will be done about global warming. Minor techno-fixes but nothing to disturb the sleepy consumer, and this is the progressive side.
  On Solving the climate problem will solve the peak oil problem, too posted 1 year, 7 months ago 37 Responses