Sorry, I don't buy the pessimism. I watched the "survivalists" of the late seventies. We went onto 25 years of overall good times. (Overall. I rode the Texas banking debacle all the way down to the bottom in the 1980's as a bank programmer.)
We've been in an energy squeeze for the last 7 years. It'll last another 7-10 years. Then we'll be out for another 25 year good times run. Shucks, we're all e-book readers here. Look how much resources that saves. Wind is already at the inversion point, solar will be there in another 5 years. Battery technology is slowly but steadily improving. We'll make it thru this valley....
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