Re: Time of Oil (Hubbert's peak)

[Yoshie Furuhashi <furuhashi.1@xxxxxxx>]

> Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
>
> > > At 4:41 PM -0400 6/2/04, Doug Henwood wrote:
> > > > So do you think we'll "run out" of oil - in the economic, not
> > > > physical sense - before we choke on the smoke and CO2?
> > >
> > > "Before" is a time-related concept, no?
> > >
> > > Doug
> >
> > Yeah, but saying "before we choke on the smoke and CO2" and saying
> > "before we exhaust all known oil reserves" both have the same
> > End-Time status in discussion of time -- which is to say,
> > irrelevant.
> >
> > Marx and Keynes' innovations concern the introduction of secular
> > time -- time of production, time of circulation, time of
> > consumption, and perilous dependence of each on the others -- to
> > political economy.
> > -
>
> Gosh, I didn't know that. Thanks!
>
> What do you suppose "in the economic, not physical sense" means?
>
> Doug

The reference to "the economic" is put in the sentence about "running
out" of oil, though -- it's the End-Time discussion again.  We have
to be able to think about oil and other natural resources, as well as
other ecological questions, in contexts other than that of the
End-Time discourse.
--
Yoshie

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