{ 2006 01 02 }

On Peaking Early…

Source: HopeDance Magazine ~ Radical Solutions Inspiring Hope
Kelpie Wilson has written an excellent article explaining “Why We Should Pray that the Peak Be Soon”. The Peak she is talking about, of course, is “Peak Oil”, and she argues, persuasively if frighteningly, that the sooner we feel its devastating effects, the more likely we are, as a species and a planet, to salvage something of value from the devastation.

The end of oil means a radical change in our way of life. But the truth is that oil has been sowing the seeds of our destruction and the sooner we give it up, the better.

If the peak comes soon we can be thankful because more oil would just dig us deeper into the climate change hole. Climate change appears to be accelerating more rapidly than predicted. We can live without oil and coal. We cannot live without a habitable climate. The worst-case scenarios for climate change involve dying, acid oceans and an atmosphere full of methane. The not-so-bad scenarios could still wipe out agriculture over large regions and drown every coastal city.

We are like the addict who would have died of an overdose if he hadn’t run out of smack first, so let’s be thankful that our supply is being cut off.

Thanks to the Energy Bulletin for the link.

Posted by richard on Monday, January 2nd, 2006, at 9:46 pm, and filed under clip, dread the rising dark.

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