[Eco] Re: Recycling and P&T's Bullshit

[Christopher Hickman]

On Wednesday, January 31, 2007, at 05:12PM, <madlab.rabbit.krishaven at spamgourmet.com> wrote:
>This one time, at band camp, "Daniel Brashler" <dannob at brashler.net> wrote:
>> 
>>> 3. The oil too is going away -- it's a finite resource as well.
>> Again, we are in absolutely no danger of running out of oil for thousands of 
>> years.  Even if that weren't the case, there *will* be a better fuel source 
>> developed well before we'd run out.  (Solar, anyone?)  There is no oil 
>> crisis due to the earth's supply.
>
>Uh, while Peak Oil's proponents have done the world a disservice with
>their immanent apocalypse scenarios, oil will not last thousands of
>years if we continue to use it at anything near the present rate.  And
>if we continue to ignore this fact and under-develop alternatives then
>we won't be prepared when supplies really do drop off.
>
>Having said that, I don't intend to get too worried until the $2 shops
>and Red Dot stores run out of plastic crap to sell.

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