What is truth Pilate asked which means he could not see

Seeing and hearing is the essence of the prophetic challenge It is echoed in Scripture from first Isaiah to Paul with a stop at Jesus on the way Anyone with a mind now sees the unfolding drama of the end of oil Chevron tries to ameliorate it with soft short term profit words but when whatever end to oil comes it will have been reasonable to stop using it long before we did and to begin building the post-oil world made manifest on the very pages of this blog car free integral and a quarter revolution beyond binary silliness
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When will people get it through their head

Bad Planning and Sprawl Are a Lethal Formula Worldwide | Sprawl World:

When will people get it through their head

That planning as we know it leaves us dead

Architects and planners need to think

Instead of bowing to the folk who blink

Well if you want more click through to the NYT evidence at the link above. We have built a world ripe for ascending weather emergencies and when they take place what do we do? Rebuild. How dumb can we be? We need to get rid of ascending car and road presence and begin building human scale cyber-enabled communities that are car free and that recognize the common need for urban amenities within walking distance everywhere. If you think the blinking reference in my quatrain is random, think again and go back to Zarathustra and reread Nietzsche's prophetic description of a comfort-addicted world. Chilling. Apposite. Relevant.

13 Odd Ways to Deal With Our Social Watershed

1. Think beyond oil2. Think beyond nominalism3. Think beyond the primacy of today's construction methods4. Think car free5. Think part time6. Think post schools as we know them7. Think ending our prison industrial complex8. Think beyond green9. Think cyber cities10 Think beyond sprawl11. Think beyond binary and toward triadic12. Think beyond addiction as an explanation for behavior13. Think beyond creed and toward spirituality
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Why do we not consider wholesale but doable measures to reduce the need for oil

Why do we  not consider wholesale but doable measures to reduce the need for oilAnd the answer is that such things as car-free towns and cities would dislocate the economy Matrix based eco-construction would up end the current construction (sprawl) industry Braudel noted the conservatism of capitalism Yet revolutions have occurred precisely when a self-evident (costly oil not getting any cheaper) becomes a basis for seeing the profit in the alternative
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Yes we have been on this case for fifty years

The Scourge of 'Peak Oil' | Common Dreams: "Tom Whipple, an energy scholar, was a CIA analyst for 30 years - and believes we are likely at, or very near, a point in history when the maximum production capacity for oil is reached, a phenomenon often referred to as 'peak oil'"

During which community has gone to the dogs in the face of sprawl, the private car has ravaged the landscape and business as usual is blaring on every TV set hawking cars and lethal pills - excuse me every gadget - excuse me every entertainment center. What recession?

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This weather is just a taste of the devastation to come if we do not end our oil use

29 States Under Heat Advisory - The Daily Beast: "The heat wave continues as 29 states issue heat advisories today. Several northeastern cities ... are ... at code red air quality levels, meaning it's unhealthy for all people. Chicago also reported unhealthy smog levels ... At least 22 people have died from the heat wave so far." I am sure few if any believe the gravity of this crisis The reason is obvious. We have lulled ourselves into believing we can do this gradually. We cannot. We are trapped in a politically disastrous vortex with truth on one side and the weight of our entire faltering economic structure trying to hold the truth back. Let Sting's "Every Breath You Take" be the sad antiphon of this sad post. I did not come late to this point of view. It has germinated for five decades. Three more end of oil posts.



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Koch Brothers Have a Weird Idea of Freedom

Correct me if I am wrong. The Koch brothers have zoomed to forty billion plus because the world is in love with oil and coal and other suicidal energy options. They have the power to launch a car-free world and make it sconomically viable. It is not that hard to figure out. But they persist on the highway to dissaster When I look at the Kochs, I do not think they are an enemy who will really change things. I see them as the flip side of a narrow band of idiocy inhabited by everyone who has the power to create the future. When they wake up, the world will breathe a deep sigh of relief. But for the moment the Kochs are big energy. And between big government and big energy there is little to choose. Neither see the future. Both fail to lead.
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Eve of destruction in North Dakota

North Dakota, Oil, and the Energy Crisis : The New Yorker: "One day a few months ago, beside a trailer parked near the center of the basin, half a dozen men prepared to send enough explosives underground to dismantle an armored tank. The firepower consisted of twenty-four “shaped charges”—little cone-shaped shells housed in foot-long metal cannisters called perforating guns. When the charges were detonated by an electrical signal, each shell would explode into the surrounding rock, forming corridors through which oil could flow into the well." Fracking is bad. Natural gas is the Wizard of Oz. Humbug.



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