Quote: (09-01-2013 04:21 AM)iknowexactly Wrote:
Doomsday obsession is for young men who haven't heard it continuously for 40 -50 years like I have, while everything changes only marginally.
Counter-example to the deep-voice of doom from this guy:
California's electricity consumption has been flat all the time we've invented all this modern computer shit over the last years.
http://www9.georgetown.edu/faculty/aml6/...Energy.pdf
If all these smart people would invent something instead of howling "the end is near" we'd be better off, although they wouldn't sell as many books.
"It's better to light one candle than to curse the darkness"; to me all these people are more trying to appear smart by listing all the things that are going wrong, than they are serving their purported goal of helping us avoid Bad Things.
They're always selling something, a book, a talk show, gold, whatever it is. If he was so smart why doesn't he invent a better switch for solar power or something positive.
"Everthing is going to hell" is not a valuable contribution, knowledge wise or morale wise.
This is a surprisingly ignorant comment. Civilizations rise and fall, things have a "Beginning, a middle and an end" like James Kunstler likes to say. Just as there is birth and death.
This has nothing to do with "Doomsday", life is going to go on and things will continue to improve - just not in the U.S. and west-europe...
For every one example of increased efficiency you post, I can give you 10 falling bridges:
21 Facts About America’s Decaying Infrastructure That Will Blow Your Mind
http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archi...-your-mind
It is time to accept reality and to distance yourself and your identity from a society which has no future.
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