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Anyone who has followed me for a while will know that I’m a regular listener to The Great Simplification by Nate Hagens.
I don’t agree with everything he says, and I think he’s probably wrong on some things, but I do think he’s an important voice, and he’s in the process of publishing a 3-part series on oil and what it does for us.
I think it’s *very well phrased* for a general audience, so I’m going to post the text of it all here in a long thread. Mute me now if you need to!…
@urlyman This is true, but irrelevant. Just as we can't continue to burn fossil hydrocarbons, so can't afford to release their carbon into the environment in any other form, because it will inevitably end up in the atmosphere as CO2 anyway.
So we can't continue to make those medicines, plastics, surgical devices, synthetic clothing, electronics, contact lenses, tents or kayaks out of fossil hydrocarbon. All will become more expensive. Some, we won't be able to make at all.
@simon_brooke agreed. On the other hand, what Nate is trying to do is to ”change the initial conditions”.
Because the downslope is a journey. We don’t arrive at the bottom in one fall
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