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  • From: David Travis <djtravis@hotmail.com>
  • To: <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [permaculture] Ten unfortunate assumptions of energy addicts
  • Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2008 19:18:08 +0000


Dear Keith,

If you don't want people sharing their
opinions or observations about Lundberg's articles, then I'd highly
recommend keeping them to yourself. Posting them to a public mailing
list might give people the mistaken idea that they're being encouraged
to communicate ideas of their own.

- David



> Message: 2
> Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2008 21:41:01 -0400
> From: Keith Johnson <keithdj@mindspring.com>
> Subject: Re: [permaculture] Ten unfortunate assumptions of energy
> addicts
> To: permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
> Message-ID: <4903CAAD.2020701@mindspring.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
>
> Actually he does but you'd have to read more of his site and not just a
> few paragraphs out of context.
>
> Archives
> <http://culturechange.org/cms/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=228&Itemid=56>
>
> I'm sure Jan would be happy to provide the references to which you refer
> if you were to contact him
> <http://culturechange.org/cms/index.php?option=com_contact&Itemid=3>
> instead of just complaining in public forums.
>
> "Jan C. Lundberg, a national speaker, writer and publisher, is best
> known for running what was widely considered "the bible of the oil
> industry," Lundberg Survey Inc. In 1979 the firm predicted the
> Second Oil Shock. After 14 years there, he left for-profit work to
> found the nonprofit Sustainable Energy Institute, now Culture
> Change. For almost twenty years he has studied peak oil, energy
> alternatives, and conservation based primarily on grassroots change
> in lifestyle. He has assisted clients interested in the impacts of
> peak oil and climate change on material security and community
> connection. Educated in Europe and on the high seas, he has pursued
> an adventure called a career that is still evolving."
>
>
> David Travis wrote:
> >> Ten unfortunate assumptions of energy addicts
> >> Written by Jan Lundberg
> >>
> >> Our collective problem as we see the world sputter out of control for
> >> the worse (before it gets better) is largely that so many loud mouths
> >> claim to know what IS happening here. Honest and wise assessments of
> >> what all is really going on are hard to come by, partly because the
> >> corporate media suppress independent voices who may have the background
> >> and objectivity to offer clarity.
> >>
> > [snip...]
> >
> >
> > Mr. Lundberg's "background and objectivity" evidently doesn't involve the
> > use of references or sources for any of his claims.
> --
> Keith Johnson
> "Be fruitful and mulch apply."
> Permaculture Activist Magazine
> PO Box 5516, Bloomington, IN 47407
> (812) 335-0383
> http://www.permacultureactivist.net


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