It's not just the economy: We've gone through swoons before. It's that gas at $4 a gallon means we're running out, at least of the cheap stuff that built our sprawling society. It's that when we try to turn corn into gas, it helps send the price of a loaf of bread shooting upward and helps ignite food riots on three continents. It's that everything is so tied together. It's that, all of a sudden, those grim Club of Rome types who, way back in the 1970s, went on and on about the "limits to growth" suddenly seem ... how best to put it, right.
All of a sudden it isn't morning in America, it's dusk on planet Earth.
Monday, May 12, 2008
Things to Come
With gas prices approaching the $4 per gallon mark and food prices skyrocketing, Bill McKibben's Los Angeles Times op-ed, Civilization's last chance, is hardly comforting but well worth reading:
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this is one genie that is into getting stuffed back into the bottle. To do so is akin to asking people to give money back......right
"is not", not "is into"
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