tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7806136543904112143.post5540600649660770053..comments2023-10-30T09:23:42.803-05:00Comments on Some Assembly Required: SAR #16153Charles Kingsley Michaelson, IIIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04364694465614330540noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7806136543904112143.post-40485894799140714312016-06-01T11:24:06.041-05:002016-06-01T11:24:06.041-05:00[Nods like a bobble-head][Nods like a bobble-head]Gegnerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01918737715343158105noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7806136543904112143.post-32796746360784717452016-06-01T09:23:42.374-05:002016-06-01T09:23:42.374-05:00Ah, yes. Cold and dark. But you can put on extra...Ah, yes. Cold and dark. But you can put on extra layers etc. etc. The coming problem will be heat - and to face that once we are naked we need air conditioning. And that requires fossil fuels, too.Charles Kingsley Michaelson, IIIhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04364694465614330540noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7806136543904112143.post-18983833518971384102016-06-01T09:20:29.373-05:002016-06-01T09:20:29.373-05:00Tis true. Besides the dependency on 'cheap and...Tis true. Besides the dependency on 'cheap and abundant' fuel, (our entire social model was built on this central premise) whole swaths of the planet are uninhabitable for months out of the year without an artificial source of heat and light. <br /><br />Since there is no way to track it, the number of people that die of 'exposure' each year remain unknown because the capitalists are good at ignoring anything that makes them look bad.<br /><br />People who can't get in out of the cold are said to have died of stupidity when pride might be closer to the mark. When there is no place to go, swallowing one's pride isn't much of an option.Gegnerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01918737715343158105noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7806136543904112143.post-8889879561082898592016-06-01T07:02:01.362-05:002016-06-01T07:02:01.362-05:00Awhile back I was shooting the breeze with some gu...Awhile back I was shooting the breeze with some guy from Calgary who retired from working on the supply chain for the oil fields up north. His money was made, his vested interests severed; so I was trying to politely get his opinion on the environmental state of play, when he interrupted, politely, as only Canadian's can, and said "The fact is that we are going to burn every last drop of oil on this planet." This was years ago. I've never read or heard anything more convincing than that one sentence since. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com