RollingStone.com: The Long Emergency : Politics

RollingStone.com: The Long Emergency : Politics

This was something unusual... an article from Rolling Stone that actually made me think. I've got to say that the sense of hopelessness this writer has doesn't help anyone, but he made some good points, and I learned a few things from it. It's about the energy crisis currently facing the world, and the potential aftermath. I think what bothers me is that he disputes the viability of alternative energy sources because they would require the use of our fossil fuel infrastructure to create them, but, for the moment anyway, we still have that, so we might as well put it to good use while we can. Yeah, creating solar and wind power plants requires a significant investment of energy, but that seems like one of the best things we could put that energy to in this case. Far better than, say, running an SUV for a year. It would provide energy that would be available from then on. He also didn't mention things like tidal power, or some other methods I know of. He also painted a rather bleak, almost apocalyptic picture of life without oil, which I'm not entirely sure is true. Still, it's a worthwhile article to read, because it does expose the seriousness of other aspects of the energry crisis... and has lots of things that most people probably haven't really heard about before.