[via The Global Sociology Blog]
This video is an excellent overview, but it isn’t flawless, and it doesn’t cover everything. For instance, it’s oversimplistic — to say the least — when the creator(s) suggest that there are only two future scenarios for us to choose between.
For a much more comprehensive overview of where we might end up in the future, see Heinberg’s book PowerDown. (I highly recommend that book — and others that Heinberg has written in recent years — but I don’t mean to suggest that all of the answers can be found there, or in any other set of books or videos for that matter.)
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Related writing from Richard Heinberg -
“The Dress Rehearsal Is Over”
“As oil crosses $100 on its way south, not even a hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico and a statement from OPEC that the cartel will cut production by over 500,000 barrels per day seems capable of halting the bloodletting”…
… “Wasn’t the price of oil supposed to rise endlessly? Wasn’t the world supposed to end by now? What happened? What does it all mean?” …
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