The Sietch Blog

Aug 20
What Does A World Dependent On Oil Look Like?

Written by The Naib

It looks like this.

In short we need to get off oil, diversify our crops, and get on renewables…quickly.

1. On August 24, 2008 Steve Salmony wrote:: Could at least one of the causes of life and the Earth, as we know them, “going to hell in a handbasket” be that the all-too-human global political economy is constructed as a perpetual motion machine and operated as a colossal pyramid scheme?

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Dennis: OK, it’s got me too now….