[Peakoil] Kunstler: None of the schemes currently circulating will avail

[Keith Thomas]

This is what Jim Kunstler wrote this week about the future of motoring (including electric cars):

We've done a poor job of managing contraction, which is the fate of 
societies that have piled up too much complexity. All of our schemes 
for grappling with this seem to boil down to one foolish obsession: 
how can we keep all the cars running? We're not going to, of course, 
but we refuse to even think about anything else. President Obama 
is merely reflecting the foolish obsession of the public.

Whenever I give a talk at a meeting or a college, somebody gets up 
and censoriously asks we why I can't present "solutions" to the 
problems of contraction we face. I do of course. The audience just 
doesn't hear them because I don't believe it is possible to keep all 
the cars running and I don't pretend that any of the schemes currently 
circulating will avail. To go a step further, I'm convinced that we are 
committing cultural suicide by using all the cars the way we do, so I 
am not the one to look to for rescue remedies in this department. In 
fact, I am serenely persuaded that we would vastly improve our chances 
of remaining civilized if we gave up on mass motoring and deployed 
ourselves on the landscape differently.

By the way, that will be the eventual outcome anyway, whether we like it or not.

http://kunstler.com/blog/2011/04/the-banana-peel-of-destiny.html#more
-----------------------------
Keith Thomas
www.evfit.com
-----------------------------

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://act-peakoil.org/pipermail/peakoil/attachments/20110426/8fe62287/attachment.htm