Posted in reply to the post by Mad" Miles]This is in reply to Wildflower who suggested we all stop burning petroleum to hinder global warming and destructive storms resulting from climate change. She posted to the "Test" section and I am placing this here as it seems the appropriate "category."
Consumer warning: What I have to say in the following is not for the squeamish and faint of heart. It is worst case scenario nightmare speculation, but they are thoughts I've had for quite a while and can't seem to shake. But if David Romero films are anathema to you I suggest you do not keep reading.
OK, Say I stop burning petroleum. How do you suggest I get to work from Forestville to Santa Rosa and Sebastopol as a substitute teacher? How do you suggest I get food? How do you suggest I heat my apartment in the winter and cook, not to mention heating water for kitchen and bathroom? (OK, it's natural gas, but how do you think they transport the natural gas?) And as for the electricity I use to post to this website, write and read email, watch TV, monitor the internet, listen to music, use the telephone, light my apartment, much of it is generated by deisel powered electrical generating plants.
You think global warming is scary? What are you going to do when the oil runs out, the whole world becomes a massive Superdome/Thunderdome ala New Orleans the last two days, and after the food reserves are used up, the gangs of urban cannibals start ranging farther into the hinterlands? Join them? Fight them? And what will you be eating when it comes down to it?
And in the mean time, when the people who have survived, by whatever means, start digging up the landfills for plastic to burn for heat, the burning of fossil fuels will look like child's play in comparison, at least in regard to the effects on the environment and global climate change.
It's easy to making sweeping pronouncements about what people should do, figuring out how to make real alternatives which are available on a scale that makes a difference is a whole different matter. For a very sobering look at all this I suggest a close reading of the information on the following website:
[url="https://www.lifeaftertheoilcrash.net/:
https://www.lifeaftertheoilcrash.net/[/url]
And then just for real depressing fun try:
https://www.well.com/user/davidu/extinction.html
"Where everything is bad, it must be good to know the worst." F.H. Bradley, "Father" of English Positivism as quoted by Theodor Adorno in "Minima Moralia"
"The world's a mess, it's in my kiss." X, circa 1981, LA Art-Punk Rock Band
"Mad" Miles