tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3862216000300765627.post8943217802344961966..comments2024-01-16T03:42:46.705-05:00Comments on The Downward Spiral: Memo to Michael Moore: It's the Peak Oil, StupidBill Hickshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17551954408189665078noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3862216000300765627.post-89561953567103380452011-10-21T18:43:22.141-04:002011-10-21T18:43:22.141-04:00@Gail - that's a great video. What strikes me...@Gail - that's a great video. What strikes me is how much that young lady resembles Leslie, the young woman with the huge student loan debt that I've written about here. They are even the exact same age (23). Like Leslie, she seems to be far more aware than most.Bill Hickshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17551954408189665078noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3862216000300765627.post-13693531957112571042011-10-21T16:40:39.850-04:002011-10-21T16:40:39.850-04:00We’re watching the experts misrepresent
Like wise ...We’re watching the experts misrepresent<br />Like wise men with an elephant:<br />The solutions they cite <br />With ingenious delight <br />Are ultimately irrelevant.BenjaminTheDonkeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18304901070197940843noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3862216000300765627.post-62848634671186443752011-10-21T16:01:37.765-04:002011-10-21T16:01:37.765-04:00You are exactly correct Bill HIcks. Many of the p...You are exactly correct Bill HIcks. Many of the people at OWS have as their top priority the forgiveness of student loans!<br /><br />On the other hand, there are a (hopefully growing) number of participants that really do understand that the only salvation (presuming any exists at all) for the human race, let alone the middle class, is a drastic reduction in our consumption, among other fundamental shifts in culture and economics.<br /><br />If you haven't seen it, it will do your heart good to meet this brave young lady from Vermont, who was preparing to protest mountaintop removal before the march to Times Square, and plans to occupy as long as it takes:<br /><br />http://witsendnj.blogspot.com/2011/10/you-are-all-lost-generation.htmlGailhttp://witsendnj.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3862216000300765627.post-26808641791966804252011-10-21T08:22:33.645-04:002011-10-21T08:22:33.645-04:00Like you Bill I admire Michael Moore, Roger and Me...Like you Bill I admire Michael Moore, Roger and Me was a great piece of work. Sicko was a brilliant polemic. But like many on the left, on both sides of the Atlantic, while his criticism of capitalism is spot on, his prescripitions for how to replace it totally miss the reality of peak oil.<br /><br />As John Michael Greer has pointed out if we apply our diminishing resources in the right way, there is still much we could do to mitigate the oncoming crisis. But we are likely to piss them away on various doomed pet schemes of both the left and right wing.irishwildeyehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13653892284914268881noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3862216000300765627.post-44713664090712529772011-10-21T07:48:01.204-04:002011-10-21T07:48:01.204-04:00I think very few if any prominent public figures w...I think very few if any prominent public figures will ever acknowledge our predicament is about resource limits.<br /><br />That's just too hard to say, and it ruins anyone's career who dares to say it.John Andersenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17222958547864356881noreply@blogger.com