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I don't blame them personally, either. I blame the Blind Faith in systems and procedures which created the prevalence of them. Keeping track of money/things is important. Using the tracking system to decide the value of a person's potential is wrong. Life is abstract, yet we allow people with things like laws and dollars to decide that abstractions aren't important enough to consider in decision making processes.
The people who perform these functions are just as much to blame as those of us who let them and pay them.
In the abstract sense, you cannot go 'off topic' when it comes to peak oil because peak oil represents Peak Humanity at this point, and we have to consider all the things we do that have brought us to a precarious peak, rather than a stable sustainability.
Today's IRS agent is tomorrow's IRS director. Today's new trinket application is tomorrow's landfill fodder.
Kunstler says, "It's All Good."
I say, "It's All Peaked."
From what you said about "Michael Clayton", you will probably like the book "The Black Swan" by Nassim Nicholas Taleb: The more we read the news, the less we know.
Another quote for the day!!!
If we are talking about population levels, then I agree, PO does represent peak human population because we need the energy and fertilizers to continue defying the gravity of Malthus's inescapable logic.
(I get so frustrated when people I know laugh and assert that Malthus was wrong. That's like them laughing at Newton and saying rocks can be thrown to infinite heights --and before you object consider friction from the atmosphere-- a rock is not a rocket.)
As for Black Swan --have seen interviews with Taleb but not sure if the book will have any greater insights beyond what he has discussed publicly. Certainly for most of humanity, PO will be a Black Swan.