[p2p-research] good summary of anti-transition hypothesis

[Michel Bauwens]

very insightful remark ...

I remember reading that a car-sharing agreement would result in 80% less
cars, without any drop in the number of kilometers driven ... and that 50%
of the food is destroyed in our current arrangement ... I"m sure the list of
such wasteful practices is pretty endless ..

when I was editor in chief of a magazine, the publisher would print 40,000
copies, to get high advertising rates based on 'proven production', then
immediately send the trucks to destroy 30,000, give another 5,000 away and
send the rest to the shops, where about half were bought ...

The efficiency of 'capitalist' markets can be amazing,

Michel

On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 2:47 PM, Kevin Carson <
free.market.anticapitalist at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 9/18/09, Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I don't agree, but it's a good summary of the radically pessimistic peak
> > oilers: http://www.integralworld.net/markus3.html
>
> > The vast majority of people – public, mass media, political and economic
> > elites – are not aware how serious the human predicament is. There is a
> > widespread hope that either oil reserves are huge, or we can develop
> > alternative energy sources, just on time «to leave oil before oil leaves
> > us». New American president Barack Obama's program for «clean energy» and
> > «clean technologies» has very wide support and popularity inside and
> outside
> > the USA. So called transition towns in New Zealand, USA and several other
> > countries are part of these wishes and programs. But this is a big
> illusion
> > and a symptom of faith in technological miracles, very often a phenomenon
> in
> > industrial society. Unfortunately, there is no such thing as
> «alternatives».
>
> > «Alternative» forms of energy simply can't replace 30 billion annual
> barrels
> > of oil (the problem of «net energy»).
>
> It's interesting how the worst Peak Oil doomers and apologists for the
> current model of industrial capitalism share the same mirror-image
> assumption:  high rates of fossil fuel consumption are necessary  for
> our current material standard of living, and there is no way of
> producing materially the same level of consumption outputs with lower
> levels of energy input.  Prosperity and "progress" are DEFINED in
> terms of how much energy is consumed.
>
> --
> Kevin Carson
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> http://www.mutualist.org/id47.html
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> http://mutualist.blogspot.com/2005/12/studies-in-anarchist-theory-of.html
>
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