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  • Oil Free?

    In what way is this plan oil free?  Grist should revise the headline of this daily grist story.

    -MN *Promote US passenger rail service. Resources and time are limited.*

    On His energy plan is half brilliant, half dumb posted 1 year, 4 months ago 21 Responses

  • Damn, He's Smart

    We are on the brink of a second Great Depression.  It is being brought about by the inability of the global oil (and other fossil fuel) operations to supply the increasing global demand, and how this messes up all the complex systems of our day to day lives world wide, especially here in the United States of Suburbia.  

    Take a moment and think about how your daily needs are being met - water supply, waste systems, food supply, etc., etc. - and notice how much each gets scrambled by an increase in the price of liquid fuels.

    Sadly, even while knowing this information about the plight of the economy, there isn't a whole lot one can do, though there are a few things and first on that list is starting to really understand what the hecks going on.

    Check out Kunstler's blog published every Monday at Kunstler.com for some of the best journalism coverage available.  More things will start to make sense.

    By the way, I appreciate the tone of this interview, which is generally respectful, well researched and genuinely interested.  I can't say the same about this 2005 Grist interview of Mr. Kunstler:

     http://www.grist.org/news/maindish/2005/05/25/little-kuns ...On An interview with author James Howard Kunstler posted 1 year, 5 months ago 6 Responses

  • spend scarce money elsewhere

    Great piece of writing.  I'd like to read more.  

    Sadly, perhaps, we may be stuck with the mess we've created in south FL in a world that is going into extreme economic decline coupled with painful fuel shortages.  To undo our 100+ years of wrath down there, we'd have to invoke those same heroic Army Corps large scale energy sucking projects, and we may be too bankrupt to do it.  Interestingly, south FL may have its destructive human sprawl cease and water return, but more likely as the result of rising sea levels due to climate change than anything else.  

    Lets focus our resources on areas that do have more of a future (not New Orleans, s. FL, etc.), while we still have the chance.  

    Promote US passenger rail service.  Resources and time are limited.  On Why the Everglades is burning, and how we sucked it dry posted 1 year, 6 months ago 9 Responses