ah but the real tanstaafl are the natural cycles of renewal upon which all life as we 'know' it (including our own!) is utterly dependent (and not the movement of little green pieces of paper that track nothing but the ficle winds of human emotion).
Making everyone dependent on energy produced by the consumprion of finite resources is backward headed from jump.
What will happen when the oil runs out is that everyone who hasn't starved will once again be able to breath. Water wheels and windmills will still turn and energy from them will still be able to be used to create ever more subtle tecnologies. Energy from combustion will however no longer be universaly feasable.
But why wait for the oil to run out and mass starvation to occur among the vast majority who are neither economicaly advantaged nor living in a healthy rural environment?
The infrastructure to suply the nuts and bolts of environmentaly sound energy and transportation will need to be already in place if the transition is to occur without massive dislocations. Many of the benifits of that transition could be enjoyed immediately without having to wait for it to become a despirate neccessity.
The future IS 'solar' - but how far into the future that will be is as much a question of political will as of resource management (and/or mismanagement as the case may be ... ~;)
stay well and keep doing the wonderful things that you do ... ~;)
ah but the real tanstaafl are the natural cycles of renewal upon which all life as we 'know' it (including our own!) is utterly dependent (and not the movement of little green pieces of paper that track nothing but the ficle winds of human emotion).
Making everyone dependent on energy produced by the consumprion of finite resources is backward headed from jump.
What will happen when the oil runs out is that everyone who hasn't starved will once again be able to breath. Water wheels and windmills will still turn and energy from them will still be able to be used to create ever more subtle tecnologies. Energy from combustion will however no longer be universaly feasable.
But why wait for the oil to run out and mass starvation to occur among the vast majority who are neither economicaly advantaged nor living in a healthy rural environment?
The infrastructure to suply the nuts and bolts of environmentaly sound energy and transportation will need to be already in place if the transition is to occur without massive dislocations. Many of the benifits of that transition could be enjoyed immediately without having to wait for it to become a despirate neccessity.
The future IS 'solar' - but how far into the future that will be is as much a question of political will as of resource management (and/or mismanagement as the case may be ... ~;)
stay well and keep doing the wonderful things that you do ... ~;)