PEAK OIL - EPOCHAL EVENT OF OUR LIVES

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All is well on our planet Earth, isn't it?

Saturday, October 13, 2018

"To compare the WWII industrial effort with the global dislocation necessary to ameliorate some of the effects of climate change is surprisingly naive and proves that the three professors got Ds in their history electives, if they had any. This comparison also neglects to account for the human population that has almost quadrupled between the 1940s and now, and the resource consumption that has increased almost 10-fold. The world today cannot grow its industrial production the way we did during WWII. There is simply not enough of the planet Earth left to be devoured.

How is it that the otherwise formidable scientists can be so blind and talk such nonsense? This is a very complicated question, but in essence it is denial amplified by brainwashing by the decades of service for the global fossil superorgansim. The global amoeba, which we all serve, demands allegiance and selective blindness towards the so many self-evident truths.

"Economic growth" is about to end because its biophysical underpinnings are getting exhausted - all at once. Only the most courageous among us see through the increasingly implausible lies we tell ourselves to obfuscate this truth. It is so much easier for us to fly to the next conference, rent a car, check into an air-conditioned hotel, eat at the air-conditioned restaurants, step over homeless on the sidewalks, and pretend that eternal growth will separate us from hard reality."

https://patzek-lifeitself.blogspot.com/2018/10/all-is-well-on-our-planet-earth-isnt-it.html?fbclid=IwAR1L6Jqg6umA3OrEbpntUVOf44AyuT9bZqukRSlhKsPWb1ZPj6wUO-nENfs