Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: [Fwd: Position in the World-System and National Emissions of]

[Doug Henwood <dhenwood@xxxxxxxxx>]

M A Jones wrote:

> Try to answer the question: do you think oil is an exhaustible and
> irreplaceable energy supply, or not? Do you side with Morris Adelman, the
> guru invoked by your own resident oil expert Greg Nowell, and think that oil
> is 'Infinite, a renewable resource' ? If you accept that it is running
> out, what do YOU think we should do? What is YOUR
> plan, apart from asking me for mine?

I think there's lots of oil left; the tighter constraint is that
burning all we have may well choke us. Maybe I'm wrong, but I think
the odds suck in betting against human ingenuity, even under
capitalism, at devising new energy sources. I think profit
imperatives have severely slowed research into them. But they'll
probably arrive.

Citing Marx on a soil crisis 150 years ago doesn't do much to promote
the catastrophist vision; the soil hasn't only survived, it's a lot
more productive than it was then.

Doug