on 11/18/04 7:15 AM, Darryl McMahon at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have finished reading Powerdown (Options and Actions for a > Post-Carbon World) by Richard Heinberg.
> Recommended. > > Indeed. A sobering book, like his previous one (The Party's Over). > I would have liked to have seen more coverage of viable solutions. As you know, his position is that there AREN'T any, if by "solution" you mean a way to avoid severe social and economic discontinuity in the near future by gracefully transitioning from petroleum to something else. > Heinberg also raises the de-population issue to an extent I have > not seen since Ehrlich. I was intrigued by his discussion of the "hands off" attitude of many progressives when it comes to the issue of overpopulation. The whole idea that there is a fundamental and under-recognized tension between the social movements (individual right to procreate or not, with no govt. interference), and the ecology movements (obvious difficulties becoming sustainable with 11+ billion humans on board). Quite a pickle we're in, and he describes it chillingly. -K _______________________________________________ Biofuel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://wwia.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/biofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuel archives at Infoarchive.net (searchable): http://infoarchive.net/sgroup/biofuel/
