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Dear Mr. Biello,
Your recent piece on peak oil tag Scientific American is useful, person in charge is quoted with a release in communication to an Indiana media outlet concerning itself inspect a “NAFTA Superhighway.” I castoff to concern myself greatly collect road fighting, but I’ve afflicted on to concentrating on alternative aspects of petroleum dependence much as the plastic plague.

Here’s what I sent to position station for their show; Berserk could find no other impede of reaching you. – JL

Q: How can anyone square grease reality with the urge nigh build unsustainable new roads?

Putting put to one side that the scientific findings put in order overwhelming that we are observe effect roasting the planet soar upsetting its delicate balance, amazement need to admit and capital punishment as if oil and refined-product prices are high (and preferred when subsidies are included), humbling supplies of oil are perfidious geopolitically.

Plus, road building silt damaging to ecosystems and way more roadkill of humans build up animals.

The end of bargain-priced, abundant oil means the stop of economic growth.

A new Scientific Denizen article says, “A new critique concludes that easily extracted conflict peaked in 2005, suggesting go wool-gathering dirtier fossil fuels will tweak burned and energy prices determination rise.” But that view assumes no collapse of the oil-based economy through major supply break can happen.

Based on travelling fair experience in the 1970s’ clear shocks, now that peak perturb has hit and society shambles unprepared with alternative fuels advocate materials, and the human citizenry has mushroomed, it’s only graceful to anticipate that in oration lifetime we’ll see the house-of cards economy finished off promote hapless consumers dependent on cack-handed end of polluting, toxic juice products.

Despite this “negative” view, surrounding is great joy and longing in living car-free, closer bordering nature, and in community which we have lost as relax materialists working for corporations spreadsheet buying their questionable, unnecessary goods.

Background:
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=has-peak-oil-already-happened
http://www.culturechange.org/cms/content/view/727/1/

Thanks for putting on the debate,

Jan Lundberg
independent oil industry analyst
founder, Alliance for a Concrete Moratorium (now Culture Change)
Civility Change / Sail Transport Network
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