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Whew, I don't really know. If you visit the Peak Oil website and get beat over the head with the list of things that are made from or depend on oil, like paint
by euroclydon 17y ago
Whew, I don't really know. If you visit the Peak Oil website and get beat over the head with the list of things that are made from or depend on oil, like paint and plastics, most transportation, even feeding the world depends heavily on natural gas fertilizers, not to mention diesel in the tractors, you'll see that are so many things we consider necessities which can't be replaced by photons racing down a fiber-optic cable.
- timthorn 17y agoI'm not trying to argue that energy/oil isn't important for growth. I think its that I see the argument so often that growth is the same as consumption, when it's not - it's the creation of value, not objects.
- euroclydon 17y agoOh sure. A good analogy for me would be swimming up stream. Even if the outbound tide of Peak Oil is draining our wealth, technological advances can stem that tide.