I’ve been reading a heck of a lot of stuff lately and even in the past day my views on things have swung around greatly because I haven’t digested stuff properly. I was thinking last night about my last post and why I said I wouldn’t comment on politics, even if I thought it was important. I now think that’s a stupid idea, so to that end I *will* post the odd political story/comment *but only* if I feel it’s important enough. I’m leaving the previous post as it is though, just to show how quickly my point of view can swing around when I haven’t thought stuff through enough 🙂
Part of what helped me change my mind was a story I received from one of my friends (thanks Nav!), regarding the upcoming oil crisis: http://www.energybulletin.net/4856.html (it was originally posted on the RollingStone website, but for some reason their link is currently down).
The reason why I found this story particularly interesting was because here where I live in Florida, there seems to be an excess of waste. There is a useless public transport system, there are massive SUVs all over the place. There might be some sort of recycling system here in Broward County but I haven’t seen any evidence of one. There certainly isn’t at my apartment complex – unless they sort through the rubbish later on and pick out what’s recyclable. But I just get the feeling that the lifestyle over here isn’t sustainable, what with the mega highways stretching all over the place and just the incredible number of cars everywhere. I have never seen so much development going on either. The suburbs continue to creep outwards at rates I haven’t seen before.
Anyway, there are a couple of other stories off the linked website that make for interesting reading too.
UPDATE: Some other views and more info is linked from Boing Boing below.
http://www.boingboing.net/2005/04/13/peak_oil_article_in_.html
