Peak Oil Meets the New Age
Purchase Xanax Online The NYT uses the Gulf oil disaster as a hook to examine the peak oil “collapsitarians.” Some of them are a bit overwrought, it seems, and want to do more than rub their worry beads. Fortunately, there’s a new cottage industry catering to their anxieties. The theme of the NYT story can be gleaned from this opener:
https://www.centroindependencia.com/comercios/ As oil continued to pour into the Gulf of Mexico on a recent Saturday, Jennifer Wilkerson spent three hours on the phone talking about life after petroleum.
Order Soma 350Mg Online For Mrs. Wilkerson, 33, a moderate Democrat from Oakton, Va., who designs computer interfaces, the spill reinforced what she had been obsessing over for more than a year “” that oil use was outstripping the world’s supply. She worried about what would come after: maybe food shortages, a collapse of the economy, a breakdown of civil order. Her call was part of a telephone course about how to live through it all.
https://isimylo.com/olga_rt/ In bleak times, there is a boom in doom.
Indeed there is. Click on the link for that telephone course. Check out its marketing pitch:
How do you feel about the current unraveling of industrial civilization and the coming transition? Do you long for a place to discuss your feelings, thoughts, and methods of preparation? Do you long to feel less alone as you live with all you know?
https://clinicagirona.cat/especialitats/hematologia/ Now that’s some serious fear mongering, served up with a soothing New Age veneer. Sure enough, click on the instructor’s bio and homepage, and you’ll learn that she’s a former psychotherapist, whose latest book is called Sacred Demise: Walking the Spiritual Path of Industrial Civilization’s Path.
https://mrgsl.com/ferreteria/ What’s that sound you hear? The wonks at The Oil Drum retching in unison. Because I’m sure that’s just what they want, their high-minded debates on overshoot being co-opted by pseudo-spiritualist claptrap.
Order Valium Online Still, you gotta admire that singularly American can-do entrepreneurial spirit. If industrial civilization is going under, someone might as well cash in on the collapse.
https://verdehesa.com/conocenos/ Has anyone actually bothered to define ‘ecopsychology’ yet? You can get letters after your name in it but it seems to mean everything from lesbian mud-wrestling through Hopi ear-candling to just generally blathering on about stuff in a vaguely Gaian sorta way.
Ecopsychology has been floating around for a few decades. One of the latest efforts to define it appeared in this NYT magazine story earlier in the year.
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