by wintler » Wed Aug 16, 2006 10:27 pm
The focus on Simmons smells exactly like the focus on Ruppert - 'look, heres an easy to discredit individual saying something we don't want to hear'. Never mind the dozens of scientists in ASPO peakoil.net, the independant depletionists Richard Duncan, Samsam Bhaktiari, Les Magoon, ODAC, and Walter Youngquist (to pick a few), the permaculturists who started warning of PO thirty years ago, or the thousands of very engaged and alert 'ordinary people' (from all walks, all nations) on lists like energyresources@yahoo and sites like theoildrum.com and peakoil.com . Is oil peaking? What do you think? <!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.theoildrum.com/story/2006/8/3/31559/92662">www.theoildrum.com/story/...1559/92662</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--> (Read the comments if interested in a board where nobody abuses or accuses other posters, thanks to a cooperative culture rather than iron-clad moderators or COC.) <br><br>Some days, particularly when reading ill-informed scepticism, I think Jay Hanson was right in arguing we are actually incapable of collectively accepting, understanding or usefully grappling with this problem. Some people have and are trying, but most are still and will probably remain in thrall to many fairy tales we degrade ourselves with: we'll think of something; official sources can't be wrong; the aliens/jesus/Ralph Nader will save us; people can do anything; the oil co's have secret patents; its all a conspiracy (yep, everything). My current pessimism is DE's cue to again reverse engineer the international conspiracy case, starting from my state of mind .. whatever (no acrimony, merely weary). <p></p><i></i>