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July 14, 2009
Environmentalists always insist
on "sustainability", but they often
seem to have an implicit assumption PEDDLING_SUSTAIN
that the world is very static.
Burning oil is not
"sustainable", because the Their vision of a "sustainable"
supply of oil is finite. industry is one based on
the obviously "renewable"
sources of energy, e.g. sunlight.
These are also relatively
low-grade sources of
energy that take a
But juggling between available considerable amount of
technologies might actually be ingenuity to concentrate...
sustainable
Implicit in most "sustainable"
Burning oil while you can, and views of the future is to
then switching to something else radically scale back
when you can't might be entirely consumption.
workable.
(This is fine by me,
It's difficult to prove it's personally, but good
going to be workable, though: luck selling that to
the idea that there will be Americans in general.)
another resource, another
technology at hand to
continuing the juggling act
may seem like a leap of faith. Some people find
such uncertainties
distressing...
This is entirely
understandable.
But who can be
alive for long
without realizing
you need to learn
to live with
uncertainty?
What's peculiar
is that different
people from different
political camps are
distressed by
different *kinds*
of uncertainty.
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