Tainted Saints

In the spring of 2005, Rolling Stone published a piece called ‘The Long Emergency’, which was about the potential ramifications of Peak Oil. Although I had three books at the time in my Amazon.com Wishlist about Peak Oil, I didn’t really grasp the gravity of the issue, and never actually read any of the books. I also tended not to read the essays in Rolling Stone because they always had so many words, but something about Kunstler’s piece made me begin reading, and then I couldn’t put it down. When I was finished, my heart was racing, and I felt sick to my stomach. And my priorities would never be the same…

It turns out that Kunstler is a racist, sexist bastard who is given to generating as much sensationalism and hysteria about Peak Oil as he can muster. Which doesn’t mean there aren’t some hard truths to be found in what he says, or that we shouldn’t treat this issue with deadly seriousness, but you have to weed through the copious amounts of garbage in his books and podcasts to get to it. Nonetheless, I recommend reading this article because I think we all need to be shaken to the core about what our future could look like – not 100 years from now, but just around the corner…

http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/7203633/the_long_emergency