- Emergence and the Industrial Revolution... #Kunstler Archived Message
Posted by Gerard
on February 28, 2020, 8:14 pm, in reply to "Nope, sorry. Can't disentangle any clear meaning from all that. I give up! :) NOM"
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Isn't it clear from my post to the previous thread that I feel Gulf-Stream desalination and massive methane release trump the benefits of any possible "greening"?...Both the Gulf-Stream desalination and the methane release issues are temperature dependent, the good Dr.Moore seems to believe than "greening" will off-set the temperature rises humanity has already set-in-motion by the tremendous ("unnatural"), increase in CO2 that has occurred since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, I challenge this assertion (and other things besides but I like to stick to "core-values" in such a regard), for just like putting the brakes on an ocean-going unsustainable fuels conveyance it will take a long time to stop this juggernaut.....such omissions in Dr.Moore's analysis also make me deeply suspect that his data set is far from complete and that he draws false conclusions from the data he does possess. Further to the "unsustainably" issue it is also apposite to point out that Peak Oil is over (shale oil was merely an aberration), see J.Kunstler* on this weeks Keiser Report..Fossil fuel extraction is environmentally damaging (esp. re: biodiversity), and produces all sorts of toxins both during production and (esp. in the case of oil-based plastics), during disposal..the costs this incurs are no longer affordable..so why not curtail the use of fossil fuels anyway (by adhering to the principles of emergence and supporting the "sustainable" energy sources by subsidising them with the profits of the diminishing unsustainable resource base)? G *"Living in The Long Emergency": https://kunstler.com/writings/cluster####-nation/ |