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So we cut back, and every other developing country will readily take up the slack. Basically, this is yet another article telling us to all live in teepees. I
by donw 18y ago
So we cut back, and every other developing country will readily take up the slack. Basically, this is yet another article telling us to all live in teepees. I'm still a firm believer that the solution lies in technology -- in developing more efficient tech, and better ways of generating power to run it.
- jibiki 18y agoThe article does go way overboard, but there are some simple ways in which Americans could (and will) cut back: more people will start commuting via public transportation instead of cars, for instance (or ever just telecommuting.)
- Harkins 18y agoCheck out James Howard Kunstler's book "The Long Emergency". He does a good job of pointing out the serious inadequacies of alternative tech, futility of efficiency (given where we are on the Hubbert curve), and points out that's it's going to be even harder to develop new energy technologies as our current ones fail.