Wednesday, August 31, 2011

Collapse Intelligently?

Heinberg's Power Down. Instead of having peak oil and climate change wreak havoc on civilization willy nilly, have every nation agree to willingly and voluntarily reduce their consumption of fossil fuels by a fixed percent every year. In this way the collapse of civilization due to a lack of energy can be 'planned'.

2 comments:

ghost said...

we're not that smart.

Phil Plasma said...

It is less about being insufficiently smart than it is about politicians worrying more about their career as compared to anything else.