The PSE outage line reports 700,000 estimated without power in their service area, and days if not a week to restore power to everyone. … but, you know, at least that power generator you bought for Y2K is useful now … as long as your gas supply holds out. Get your syphon ready to pull… Continue reading Welcome to a taste of post-abundance
Category: Peak Oil
Depressing essay, surface the myth-masked system
Via Clusterfuck Nation by Jim Kunstler : Oh Six You can only introduce so much perversity into an economic system before distortions cripple it. From 2001 through 2005, consumer spending and residential construction had together accounted for 90 percent of the total growth in GDP, while over two-fifths of all private sector jobs created since… Continue reading Depressing essay, surface the myth-masked system
Down and out in Ecotopia
Via Synergic Earth News, “A Book Review of The Long Emergency“: “The reality that our society is currently refusing to face, Kunstler says, is that time is just about up for industrial civilization as we have known it. Kunstler’s thesis is straightforward: Malthus was right, but cheap oil has postponed the day of reckoning, creating… Continue reading Down and out in Ecotopia