Friday January 28, 2005 
Friday January 28, 2005
A transcript of a speech by James Howard Kunstler in Hudson, NY on 8 January 2005.
peakoil.com -> kunstler.com :
The global peak oil production event will change everything about how we live. It will challenge all of our assumptions. It will compel us to do things differently - whether we like it or not ...
Long before the oil actually depletes we will endure world-shaking political disturbances and economic disruptions. We will see globalism-in-reverse. Globalism was never an 'ism,' by the way. It was not a belief system. It was a manifestation of the 20-year-final-blowout of cheap oil. Like all economic distortions, it produced economic perversions. It allowed gigantic, predatory organisms like WalMart to spawn and reproduce at the expense of more cellular fine-grained economic communities ... the end of globalism will be hastened by international competition over the world's richest oil-producing regions ...
[Click here for the rest of the transcript] - a must read!
(2005-01-28 21:08:45 SGT)
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I really really hope he's wrong. But simply makes too much sense. Gindy think that turkey oil is going to save us.
I don't think even Kuntsler is think it all the way through. If we run short of energy as quickly as he seems to think, I think serious violence even at the local level is probability.
Civilization is just a thin veil.
Posted by Fatherof4 on January 29, 2005 at 01:17 PM SGT #
You are invited to join the Peak Oil Webring from the link on my blog.
http://flyingtalkingdonkey.blogspot.com
I would be honored if you would consider joining up.
Fatherof4
Posted by Fatherof4 on January 31, 2005 at 01:51 PM SGT #