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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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The final outcome - ie survival liklehood - of humanity and many other species gets down to a race between the energy factor on one hand, and international population decimation via infection of various sorts on the other. The current concern with a particularly virulent strain of TB; the sleeping giant that is malaria; aids; bird flu; etc etc provide ample cases in point. It should also be born in mind that medical research itself is dependent upon energy input. It all gets down to cheap and available energy.
To me, it seems that nuclear power generation is the way to go - indeed the only way - despite the real or imagined risks. We are possibly damned if we do and undoubtably damned if we dont.
Above all, we must dispense with any notion of a caring earth or indeed a caring universe. We must collectively internalise the notion that the earth simply doesn't care, and that there is no 'god' of any persuasion or of any teleological significance - we are on our own.
We must either actively cultivate this mindset, ot have it thrust upon us by default - or at least thrust upon those of us who might remain.