garybgreen's comments:

on An Hour With Al Gore

Mr. Vice President,

All of the comments so far seem to reflect different aspects of a very large problem with no consensus on a solution. Assuming this is true and that the clock is running out on us to contain unsustainable population growth, global warming, etc., etc., do you think there is anything that we could realistically agree on to do to lessen the overall impact?

Alternatively, might the problems we are concerned with all become moot if the forecasts of a number of oil economists from M. King Hubbert(the Hubbert curve) to Dr. Colin Campbell ("The Coming Oil Crisis") to Jeff Rubin ("Why Your World is About to get a Whole Lot Smaller") become a reality in the near future (as seems to be happening)? If relatively cheap oil, that we are addicted to, becomes history everything changes. Cheap food, cheap transportation, cheap imports, excessive consumption of fossil fuels and, yes, global warming all have the brakes applied without any domestic or international plan or agreements. The world economies will be turned upside down but the problems that we can't agree on today will be forgotten and suddenly replaced with new and different problems.

The final question is: shouldn't we be thinking in totally different directions?

Thanks for being on Think Out Loud and listening to us.

garybgreen

posted 2 years, 6 months ago
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