engineeredweed - Would you please provide detail to discuss?
I believe the guy who first figured out how much oil there was partied pretty hardy that night.
When humans released the energy of many hundreds of millions of years of accumulated sunlight as well as the gasses that sunlight energy trapped
in a single hundred-year pulse, humans affected things in a big way.
Every single barrel of oil is equal to a single human man's lifetime in man-hours of energy.
Humanity did big.
Folks don't seem to realize the Earth is at the END of an ice age NOW and are stacking their man-made mega meltdown on top of the end of the natural warm period.
40 Days Of Rain
For All The Money In The World
The dislocation of reality
suffered by modern urban humans,
because they are in daily contact only
with non-living, inanimate, man-made objects
befalls, unfortunately, in its most acute form,
humans in positions of power
who should be bearing the responsibilities
for mankinds weal and woe.
Yet what is real for them,
what they affect and what
reciprocally affects them
and what they think about continually
is influence and money . . .
No wonder, then, that ecologists
are regarded as nostalgic dreamers
when they warm that cash in paper or metal,
even in gold itself,
or numbers in a bankbook or on a balance sheet
are mere symbols
and that the real necessities of life,
such as pure air and un-poisoned water
and uncontaminated soil
and an intact protective ozone layer
above the earths surface,
will very soon no longer be buy-able
for all the money in the world.
- Loren Eisley
Tax or No Tax - W.Hippie