{"id":228,"date":"2006-03-23T05:49:27","date_gmt":"2006-03-23T13:49:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kateandryan.net\/?p=228"},"modified":"2006-03-23T05:49:27","modified_gmt":"2006-03-23T13:49:27","slug":"has-peak-oil-gone-mainstream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kateandryan.net\/?p=228","title":{"rendered":"Has Peak Oil Gone Mainstream?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lifeaftertheoilcrash.typepad.com\/life_after_the_oil_crash_\/2006\/03\/has_peak_oil_go.html\">Matt Savinar&#8217;s post<\/a> covers a number of interesting points.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The fact is the true Peak Oil meme, which boils down to various ways of saying &#8220;we&#8217;re going to have to get by with a whole lot less in the future&#8221;, is never going to go mainstream. Not in a society where virtually everybody alive today had their brain&#8217;s software programmed at a time where the present was always more wealth-filled and energy-rich than the past. For all of us 65 years and younger, the actual neural wiring of our brains was shaped at a time where energy was becoming constantly more abundant. Most of us simply don&#8217;t have the brain hardware necessary to understand the software program of &#8220;less wealth and technology in the future than the present.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matt Savinar&#8217;s post covers a number of interesting points. The fact is the true Peak Oil meme, which boils down to various ways of saying &#8220;we&#8217;re going to have to get by with a whole lot less in the future&#8221;, is never going to go mainstream. Not in a society where virtually everybody alive today [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-peak-oil","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Xt8g-3G","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kateandryan.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kateandryan.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kateandryan.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateandryan.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateandryan.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateandryan.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kateandryan.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateandryan.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateandryan.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}