I was intrigued coming across a book called $20 Per Gallon: How the Inevitable Rise in the Price of Gasoline Will Change Our Lives for the Better in one of the bargain price book catalogs I peruse, and I thought since it was especially cheap I would give it a read. The idea of oil, beyond the woes at the pump, and how it underpins our lives is something that has interested me for about a year now since I read James Howard Kunstler's The Long Emergency . What I've been reading, even beyond Kunstler, showcases a planet that is reaching its natural resource limits, not just oil but also food, freshwater and energy in general. How we deal with this problem, that of increasing demand meeting natural resources that are most assuredly not increasing, will define how humanity persists into the future. Will we go forward with, as Kunstler calls it "the project of civilization" or will we fall back into some sort of dark age of unknown duration? At first, it was almost re...
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