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  • From: "Tradingpost" <tradingpost@lobo.net>
  • To: livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: [Livingontheland] from Big melt meets big empty
  • Date: Wed, 09 Dec 2009 17:09:12 -0700


"... steep declines in standards of living will be hitting these wealthy
countries anyway, due simply to depletion of important energy resources,
starting with oil. The only way to avert massive social chaos and famine as
extraction levels decline will be to devote public capital domestically
toward the building of low-energy infrastructure (e.g., electrified rail
networks, trolley lines, wind farms) while moving many people to rural areas
and teaching them to farm sustainably. Production and consumption will have
to be largely re-localized, essential goods rationed by quota. Basically the
same thing will have to happen in the poor nations."

from Big melt meets big empty: Rethinking the implications of climate change
and peak oil
by Richard Heinberg
http://www.energybulletin.net/node/36739




  • [Livingontheland] from Big melt meets big empty, Tradingpost, 12/09/2009

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