Bill,
No issue with the laws, the geese all took off and left the day before hunting season started!
Andy, my only quibble with your list would be how short it is. You left out some other items like "food". Our entire agricultural system runs on fossil fuels. Not to mention just about everything else in society, because plastic is in everything.
But that doesn't mean it isn't a problem. We need to move off of oil to something else, because it is killing our planet. It isn't going to be easy, and I am no saint in this myself; doesn't mean we don't need to do it.
Wondering if we should change this forum from DIY Audio to DIY Electric Vehicle 🙂
whoops, too late!
https://endless-sphere.com/forums/ (link to an electric vehicle forum)
whoops, too late!
https://endless-sphere.com/forums/ (link to an electric vehicle forum)
Not so sure it is about oil running out, it is the downsides of putting the carbon into the air and plastic into the biosphere.
Although a lot of the newer reserves you mention depend on technologies such as fracking, which may not be as safe as the industry would want you to think, or extraction methods like the Canadian tar sands, which is also not exactly 'clean'.
Absolutely right. We are addicted to fossil fuels, Putin and the like are the pushers. Now we see it's not only climate, but also our security that is at stake. Let's stop being stupid and irresponsible, use less energy to start with and try to avoid fossil.
What do you expect people to say? make other choices.
My dad was planning what was then the illegal carnage of enough Canada guess to fill up the family freezer (not the small one). It so happens that the location of his intended carnage was right next to the 401, the major artery passing through South Western Ontario. All I could see was dad going to prison and myself seated with a tin cup next the highway trying to catch or duck the loonies and toonies (names of Canadian coins) thrown at me by sympathetic passersby who couldn't safely slow down from travelling at 100 Kilometres per hour.
I wouldn't say we are "addicted" to oil. I think it's more of a necessity. I don't with the current technology, there is no any other viable alternatives.
Assuming our current way of life is sacred and has to be continued. But of course there are alternatives. Look at the Amish. You may not like their lifestyle, but it works without oil.
Addiction, indulgence - all about the same. All anyone NEEDS is a 200 square foot apartment located directly across the street from their job. Anything beyond that can be considered an indulgence. Even commuting 20 miles each way on a bicycle - to a 2000 square foot house that takes electricity and gas to run. How many more showers do you have to take in a day? Running that washing machine every other day to keep the laundry pile from spontaneous combustion. Mowing the @#$&* grass. And how much more you have to eat….
My office seats something like 300-400 people as a rough guess. I think the peak occupancy last summer was about 20 or 30 people. Considering the gas price I guess we will hit another peak of 30 people visiting this year.
Well when an Amish gets sick, he or she would go to a hospital which has a lot of electricity which comes from power from oil.
Is this a topic where you're allowed to link political subjects only if you live in the USA? Are the gas prices going higher only in the USA?
Not all of them will.
And I’m rapidly becoming one of the terrorists/revolutionaries/radicals who just refuse to buy into that “Ask your doctor about … fill in the blank… “ money making racket.
I heard people were practically paying you to take their cherry muscle cars away for them because they were such petro pigs. You could get cars like an SS Chevelle's and 340 Plymyth Dusters', all the most sought after cars today. For a thousand bucks. Sometimes less. Cars that easily run minimum 40k, and even much more in todays prices. The smart people hoarded them and stuck them in a garage.
Lifestyle in the Western world is a kind of lifestyle that abuses and overexploits the world, especially in the USA (but also in Europe where i live). You don't need a big V8 to get arround, even for long distances (my office is about 60km from where i live, and my car (a german break) has a 1000cc turbocharged 3 cilinder gasoline engine that push 120HP out...). You don't need to eat every day huge amounts of meat (the biggest air polutors of them all is Cattle breeding on a industrial way), ... Resources are limited in this world so we need to use them right. So a change has to come (i think most realise that).
There are ways to do that, but the mind of a big part of the worlds population, mainly the older generation is not ready for that yet. But the youngsters of today are more aware of that and their mindset is slowly changing to a better more durable mindset and lifestyle. But if it's fast enough to avoid big problems, i doubt it. But if we don't change our lifestyle, the ecosystem will force us with more and more natural disasters. That is how it works as it's always seeking a stable balance, and when the balance is disturbed, it tries to rebalance, with brutal means if necesairy. And many see us humans not as a part of nature and the ecosystem, but we are just high evoluated selfconscious monkeys, and are defnitly a part of it. Those natural laws also apply to us, and it's adapt or die!
There are ways to do that, but the mind of a big part of the worlds population, mainly the older generation is not ready for that yet. But the youngsters of today are more aware of that and their mindset is slowly changing to a better more durable mindset and lifestyle. But if it's fast enough to avoid big problems, i doubt it. But if we don't change our lifestyle, the ecosystem will force us with more and more natural disasters. That is how it works as it's always seeking a stable balance, and when the balance is disturbed, it tries to rebalance, with brutal means if necesairy. And many see us humans not as a part of nature and the ecosystem, but we are just high evoluated selfconscious monkeys, and are defnitly a part of it. Those natural laws also apply to us, and it's adapt or die!
Between total dependence on fossil fuel and using zero a lot is possible. If we would minimise the use and cut back let's say 80%, we might become independent of totalitarian regimes and keep climate change under control. Why not go for it?
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