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Funny thing....
that David R liked 'Children of Men' so much when it came out.
And I quote:
The reason I mention it here is that it puts some flesh and feeling on the warnings of the doomers: the peak-oil doomers, climate-change doomers, nuclear-terrorism doomers, global-virus doomers, general-malaise doomers. The techno-optimist response to, say, peak oil, is hey, when oil starts to get expensive we'll respond in an orderly fashion and shift to something else, right? It's not like there'll be riots in the streets. Right? But one thing Children of Men shows to visceral effect is just how shallow civilization is. Just how quickly the veneer can be ripped away and the lawlessness and brutality let loose.
Is Kuntsler's vision that much different? It's at least as much of a wake-up call to the possible downside of climate change as that movie. On Kunstler meets Colbert posted 1 year, 6 months ago 16 Responses
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Not a bad message
I agree that Kuntsler came off sounding pretty good. I have seen a lot bigger personalities not able to banter with Colbert. I know most people are turned off by his peak oil/financial collapse/doomsday predictions, but his general message that we are in for a big change in the way we live in an energy/carbon constrained future due climate change is is not the worst message. In the end he comes off sounding pretty sane to me.
A little footnote - at the end of the interview Colbert asks him about Y2K. If you follow Kuntsler you may know that he made dire predictions about that too, which didn't come to pass so some people feel his predictions on peak oil are suspect. I wonder if that was a little dig from someone on Colbert's staff doing their homework.On Kunstler meets Colbert posted 1 year, 6 months ago 16 Responses
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transit done....
Part of this is already been worked up by google maps at:
It's only a few cities and uses the normal bus searching routines as its backend, but display the routes in the familiar google maps format.On Will Google Maps or Mapquest be the first to help folks travel green? posted 2 years, 6 months ago 16 Responses
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You can too!
You really can have live in the city with great transportation and have a "big yard" -- it's called a park. And they are all over, usually just a short walk or bike ride away. On Living in the suburbs may not be so cheap posted 3 years ago 6 Responses
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Biohols in Silicon Valley
An interesting article in Wired this month on VC's in Silicon valley heavily funding the pro-oil CA tax. Wired magazine (buy the print version) has an article from Venture Capitalist Vinod Khosla about this and his big bet investment into ethanol derived from all sorts of plants material (biohols). Its online at wired.com come Oct 3rd.On The fight is on posted 3 years, 1 month ago 5 Responses