a post from an aborted Blog
I am currently fixated on the use of energy in the world and the changes that this use will be undergoing in the next little while (say nine or ten years).
That we are at or near peak oil production appears to be a given at this point. One-half of all of the oil in the world has been used up since John Rockefeller and his cronies invented a new system of the world back in the 1880's.
I think that how a society, family, or person deals with the changes coming down the pike will define the well-being for that entity. I feel that energy use and the concommitant entropy issues will drive and define the individual in the coming years.
Needless to say, all of the answers are not at my fingertips. This is as much as anything a way to come to grips with the issues. So as much as anything, I will be trying to elicit serious responses from the people who look at this blog. Please give constructive ideas. Please try to be a scientist, not a true believer.
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I believe that the West is careening its way towards two different kinds of bankruptcy. The first is fiscal bankruptcy. While most people see this as the primary problem, I see it as a minor symptom of the second bankruptcy: Spiritual Bankruptcy.
The West has created a system where the individual is the be all and end all of the world. We in America and our cousins in Europe have created a system where the government rewards any excess in the name of personal liberty. It is as if Ayn Rand's amoral universe has come into play. We have the looters true enough, but for some reason we also have the self-absorbed and egocentric villains that she tried so hard to make attractive.
The bankruptcy is the loss of the glue that holds any society together, the idea that one's actions must be part of a long line of persons. That the actions that one takes must make both one forebears and ones descendants proud. The individuals that live today is merely links in the chain of life. We take as much as we possibly can for our personal comfort, knowing that we are impoverishing the generations that will follow us.
We must begin to live in a sustainable manner. Our children and children's children will curse us if we do not.
The West has created a system where the individual is the be all and end all of the world. We in America and our cousins in Europe have created a system where the government rewards any excess in the name of personal liberty. It is as if Ayn Rand's amoral universe has come into play. We have the looters true enough, but for some reason we also have the self-absorbed and egocentric villains that she tried so hard to make attractive.
The bankruptcy is the loss of the glue that holds any society together, the idea that one's actions must be part of a long line of persons. That the actions that one takes must make both one forebears and ones descendants proud. The individuals that live today is merely links in the chain of life. We take as much as we possibly can for our personal comfort, knowing that we are impoverishing the generations that will follow us.
We must begin to live in a sustainable manner. Our children and children's children will curse us if we do not.
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