{"id":2992,"date":"2010-06-06T08:02:24","date_gmt":"2010-06-06T12:02:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/collideascape\/?p=2992"},"modified":"2010-06-06T08:02:24","modified_gmt":"2010-06-06T12:02:24","slug":"peak-oil-meets-the-new-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/?p=2992","title":{"rendered":"Peak Oil Meets the New Age"},"content":{"rendered":"

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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 “\u201d 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<\/a> about how to live through it all.<\/p>\n

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Purchase Tramadol Without Prescription Now that’s some serious fear mongering, served up with a soothing New Age veneer. Sure enough, click<\/a> on the instructor’s bio and homepage, and you’ll learn that she’s a former psychotherapist, whose latest<\/em> book is called Sacred Demise: Walking the Spiritual Path of Industrial Civilization’s Path.<\/p>\n

What’s that sound you hear? The wonks at The Oil Drum<\/a> retching in unison. Because I’m sure that’s just what they want, their high-minded debates on overshoot<\/a> being co-opted by pseudo-spiritualist claptrap.<\/p>\n

https://castlehomecomfort.com/air-conditioning/ 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

https://plazadelencuentro.com/livros/ 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… https://dinoeliadis.com/press-releases/ Continue Reading…<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2572,2641,2900],"tags":[871,990,1386,1455],"class_list":["post-2992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-collapse","category-energy","category-peak-oil","tag-collapse","tag-energy","tag-new-age","tag-peak-oil"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2992\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}