Confronting Collapse: The Crisis of Energy and Money in a Post Peak Oil World by Mike Ruppert"It's tough to make predictions. Especially about the future."
I've seen this quote attributed to both Neils Bohr and Yogi Berra, which somehow makes it even more appealing.
While I doubt Mike Ruppert would self-identity as a progressive, his persistent arguments that peak oil is a very real and pressing concern help explain why so many progressives advocate reducing our dependency on oil, and investing in renewable energies. There's plenty to criticize about Ruppert's predictions, but there's also plenty to make anyone who reads this book sit up and take notice.
Given that we don't have to rely on oil, and that every administration since Nixon has promised to get us off our oil dependence, progressives often feel pressured to trot out worst-case scenarios as a sort of last-resort attempt at persuasion.
Regardless of whether you are concerned about the collapse of civilization as Ruppert describes it, you still might want to ask yourself: With the consequences so potentially dire if we don't change our ways, why do we continue to engage in such risky behavior?
Why this is progressive/liberal: This is the progressives' idea of a worst-case scenario if we don't adopt more progressive strategies for changing the way we power our civilization.
BUY THIS BOOK
Buy the Kindle version: Confronting Collapse: The Crisis of Energy and Money in a Post Peak Oil World
No comments:
Post a Comment