Do people consume like $heep? People DO.

Do people blindly follow the subjective PRICE of fuel and allow it to influence their driving habits, instead of admitting that fossil fuels get scarcer each second (regardless of price) because they're FINITE? People DO.
Witness today's recession-based oil price drop, which has many idiots saying Peak Oil is impossible. It's only been a few months and their short-attention spans have ignored the earlier climb, or written it off to speculation. Classic $heeple behavior. Gimme now!
For the same shallow reasons, do people choose to ignore the evidence for anthropogenic global warming, or shrug it off as something they can't influence? People DO.
In recent ads, Chevron has been asking folks to voluntarily use less energy, which is admirable. But most people don't really comprehend why that's necessary. They think nature owes them cheap everything and resources are infinite. Ask a "conservative" to conserve and you'll get a glazed look at best.
Chevron's "Human Energy" campaign is ironic in that people just USE energy. People can't create things out of thin air without a physical resource. These ads give the impression that enough "bright minds" can solve anything, but there are just too many consumers. People generally take whatever's held out to them if the cost is made affordable by lack of foresight.
Someday, we'll see TV ads asking (with urgency) that people have fewer kids. Without constant price-increases, zero population growth is the only known way to stop consumption growth.
E.A.
http://enough_already.tripod.com/
Contraception is the greenest technology ever invented.

On Fri, 28 Nov 2008 10:32:07 -0800 (PST), Enough Already wrote:

Do people blindly follow the subjective PRICE of fuel and allow it to influence their driving habits, instead of admitting that fossil fuels get scarcer each second (regardless of price) because they're FINITE? People DO.
Witness today's recession-based oil price drop, which has many idiots saying Peak Oil is impossible. It's only been a few months and their short-attention spans have ignored the earlier climb, or written it off to speculation. Classic $heeple behavior. Gimme now!
For the same shallow reasons, do people choose to ignore the evidence for anthropogenic global warming, or shrug it off as something they can't influence? People DO.
In recent ads, Chevron has been asking folks to voluntarily use less energy, which is admirable. But most people don't really comprehend why that's necessary. They think nature owes them cheap everything and resources are infinite. Ask a "conservative" to conserve and you'll get a glazed look at best.
Chevron's "Human Energy" campaign is ironic in that people just USE energy. People can't create things out of thin air without a physical resource. These ads give the impression that enough "bright minds" can solve anything, but there are just too many consumers. People generally take whatever's held out to them if the cost is made affordable by lack of foresight.
Someday, we'll see TV ads asking (with urgency) that people have fewer kids. Without constant price-increases, zero population growth is the only known way to stop consumption growth.
E.A.
http://enough_already.tripod.com/
Contraception is the greenest technology ever invented.

What happens when people stop consuming. Start with those people whose jobs are in the manufacturing industry. Consuming is unfortunately a necessary evil, and we are well beyond the point where zero population growth will help.