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Peak oil and retirement : Comments
By Michael Lardelli, published 6/10/2008When planning for retirement in a post-peak oil world a new attitude is needed.
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As for your mention of our faith based money system, it is undoubtedly clear that our economic system is fundamentally flawed; suggesting that currency without a standard represents the finite nature of resources (human or otherwise) available to our species. While what seems a noble implementation of the first law of thermodynamics is actually completely ignoring the human discovery of new resources, both new deposits of conventional sources or the advent of entirely new technological breakthroughs. Such a mode of operation facilitates gain, only at another's (usually nation's) expense. A finite source distributed amongst an ever increasing populace, carrying an ever decreasing real value is doomed to dilute wealth or the ability to influence change.
As a third year genetics student under your tutorship and with an understanding of science, politics and philosophy I'm rather scared and resigned to a fate I've had little to no hand in creating. If you've a spare toaster and refrigerator to leave me please do so; maybe I can salvage the parts to concoct a device to provide me with some breathable air, lord knows there might not be a hell of a lot of that in times to come!
By the by, don’t be hard on yourself. Being a research and educator you’re working actively on both fronts to arm the future generations with the tools to pull this species out of the sorry mess we find ourselves in.