{"id":184,"date":"2005-10-03T07:02:02","date_gmt":"2005-10-03T15:02:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kateandryan.net\/wpblog\/?p=184"},"modified":"2005-10-03T07:09:11","modified_gmt":"2005-10-03T15:09:11","slug":"fso-transcription-james-howard-kuntsler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kateandryan.net\/?p=184","title":{"rendered":"FSO Transcription – James Howard Kuntsler"},"content":{"rendered":"

FSO Transcription – James Howard Kunstler “The Long Emergency” October 1, 2005<\/a><\/p>\n

An interview with Kunstler about peak oil, hurricane impacts and the future.<\/p>\n

\nI don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t believe any combination of alternative fuels, or systems for running them, will allow us to run things the way we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re accustomed to running them in America, or even a substantial fraction of them. All of them share the same central liability, which is that it takes more energy to get these things in play \u00e2\u20ac\u201c whether it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s biodiesel, or hydrogen, or solar, or wind \u00e2\u20ac\u201c than you get from the energy that these things produce.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

When I go and give a college lecture, people get up in the audience, during the question and answer period, and they say things like, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Oh, you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re so pessimistic, you don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have any solutions.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d And it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s true, I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have any magic bullets myself. I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t offer any magic bullets, but I think that there are intelligent responses to what we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re faced with, and they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re pretty straight forward. There\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s nothing really that abstruse about them. For instance, we are probably going to have to downscale everything we do in everyday life. We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re probably going to have to resize, and right size, and rescale all of our activities, from farming, to the way we do schooling, to the distances that we live from things, to the way we conduct retail trade, from the way we conduct manufacturing. And we can do these things. But we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re not prepared to think about them. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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