Michael Klare, just 2 or 3 or 5 years ago — only yesterday in pundit-years — was an avid peak-oil predictor. He specializes in staying in front of where he thinks the parade is going. He knows little about oil industry, though that lack of understanding slows him not at all.
In the blog you cite he reveals he does not understand the climate issue. As you point out, global warming would not be stopped even if Klare were correct about his vision of the future energy system. Thus he can tell his students where to seek careers. I’m disappointed that Tom Dispatch keeps publishing Klare. Here is Klare in Tom Dispatch, 7/14/2009: > It's a reasonable assumption that behind this unprecedented shift lies an > acknowledgement of the inescapable reality of peak oil. As things stand now, > the world will soon reach a maximum level of sustainable daily oil output, > followed by an inevitable contraction in available supplies. Many experts > believe that the peak in conventional (liquid) oil output is likely to occur > in the very near future, perhaps in the 2010-2015 timeframe, with global > output topping out about 5 to 10 million barrels per day higher than today's > 85 million barrels. > Tom Dispatch, 7/14/09 > Gene > On Dec 19, 2015, at 1:38 PM, Charlie <[email protected]> wrote: > > Michael Klare makes the case that the necessary change away from > hydrocarbon-based energy is underway and unstoppable. He does not say > that environmental damage will shrink to a trickle, that weather will > not get more damaging before it turns around, that disasters will be > avoided. His point is that capital has reached a tipping point in favor > of renewable energy in time to avoid the extinction of humanity. > > See > http://www.tomdispatch.com/blog/176080/tomgram%3A_michael_klare%2C_go_green_young_woman%2C_young_man > > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
