Posted on 01/16/2008 3:45:36 PM PST by dufekin
Maybe, to leave an inheritance?
Why bother? The same Marxists who want to take away your car will appropriate your wealth.
That much is obvious. When you can’t find gasoline you can walk. Ten miles isn’t that far.
What wealth? Hey, I am all for keeping the marxists out of power, don’t worry. Just thought I would offer some thoughts on voluntary conservation.
I suspect that those of us who live in the country have far more economical driving habits.
When I drive, I do all my driving at that time. Also I have little or no traffic issues to deal with as well as fewer stops and starts.
Nothing wrong with voluntary conservation. All my outdoor lights are solar charged. They don’t work well at this time of year but I like it dark anyway.
Wait until he needs an ambulance.
I try to go into town once a week whether I need to or not. It’s interesting to see how things change, and they change a lot from week to week. Those who go into town every day may not notice some of the smaller changes, but it is a lot in a week.
When I had cable TV, my all time favorite show was on the Learning Channel. It was called “A House for All Seasons.”
Don’t know if it is still on the air. Did you ever watch it? Even better than “This Old House.”
I prefer to burn corn in my digestive system (or in that of some domesticated animal), but if/when I buy a house, I can install and use a wood stove.
11. Throw away all advice from Marxists who really just want to control you. Then continue driving your car because ingenuity has either found more oil or developed a successful substitute.
I know it’s tough, but perhaps you could use a bicycle (especially with fewer motor vehicles on the roads) or move your work and/or home location.
We have to stop thinking in terms of appeasing the greens. It isn't about oil or global warming. They see humanity as a cancer on the planet and any "solution" to the oil problem will be apposed just as vehemently as drilling in Alaska. If we have to come to blows with them, then so be it.
No, not horses. That would be stupid. But we might end up with partially enclosed three wheeled mopeds or something like that.
Hmm...and yet he insists on electrifying the railways and turning them into the replacement transportation for automobiles. I don't think the fellow has really thought this through.
This isn't future thinking, it's nostalgia for life before oil. The author may be an excellent actor but he isn't a very sound historical thinker.
We will not see a future buried in horse poop. Ain't happening. We will not see a future with wooden bedsteads, puerperal fever, oil lamps, thatched roofing, and news by town crier. We will not forgo 21st-century medicine, communications, or transportation. We will not see the 17th century again however nostalgic it may seem to those who didn't have to live in it.
We will adapt. We always have.
Internet sales, for example, are currently dependent on the mail and shipping infrastructure because it's possible. If it isn't, they will shift to favor local merchants, who are quite as capable of putting up websites as Coldwater Creek is. In fact, they have been.
Little is sadder or more self-contradictory than a retrograde "progressive." This particular one has adopted the arrogant, sanctimonious stance of "get busy and do what I tell you." That ain't happening either.
Sounds like he wants to recreate the 1930s. - Tom
“Why not just reduce the population by 75% and avoid the problem altogether?”
Looked at demographic statistics lately? Most western countries are doing a pretty good job of rendering themselves extinct as it is. The U.S. birthrate is only at bare replacement. Europe is at 1/2 - 2/3 replacement, hence the large scale immigration in recent decades.
A few interesting ideas in the article, but he completely misses the boat. The major problem is not that we’re going to run out of resources or that we’re going to render the earth uninhabitable; the problem is that we in the west are failing to breed in adequate numbers.
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