I happen to agree entirely. Fundamentally, civilisation, from the plough onward, is about being able to deploy energy to good effect. We've learnt over the past 30 years or so that the means of producing energy that we've been using for the past 200 years is even less sustainable than previously thought (i.e. not just about the coal & oil running out). The long term answer is to fix the sustainability, not reduce the amount of energy used.
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Date: 2009-07-09 10:57 am (UTC)I happen to agree entirely. Fundamentally, civilisation, from the plough onward, is about being able to deploy energy to good effect. We've learnt over the past 30 years or so that the means of producing energy that we've been using for the past 200 years is even less sustainable than previously thought (i.e. not just about the coal & oil running out). The long term answer is to fix the sustainability, not reduce the amount of energy used.