This is a website my dad sent me. From ChrisMartenson.com. It’s a condensed assessment on the difficulties of sustaining our way of life on this planet.
Worth checking out. There are 20 chapters. I didn’t time it exactly, but if you watch the videos straight through, it’ll take about two hours. But it goes by quickly (I would open two windows so you can have the next chapter(s) ready and then just leap frog between windows).
Anyway, here is the link:
The Crash Course
I’ll write my comments in the comments section of this post so you can develop your own opinions before looking at mine.
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Ok, I thought it was very insightful and connected a broad range of ideas. A few problems I had:
1. I think he could have done a better job citing his references. It would have given him more credential, especially with all those charts he put up.
2. He said at the beginning that he’d be clear on facts, opinions, and beliefs. He was not.
3. In spite of the information he is presenting that suggests we cannot sustain our current way of life, he still seems to be of the opinion that we should continue on the road we are on and simply find a new resource to consume. In other words, he seems to implicitly say we need to change our energy source, not our entire paradigm.
I like his approach at the end that looks at courses of action that are tapered to the individual viewing the site, but I would have also liked to have heard his personal ideas as to what kind of solutions there are to this problem.
Bottom line: I liked the video and if his presentation is accurate, then we have some serious things to think about. If his charts are correct and we have been deferring an economic correction since the Great Depression, then we have a very long way to fall to level out.
This planet has a finite amount of resources and we are using a model that requires unlimited exponential growth for short-term benefit. Eventually, we are going to have to face that reality and technology cannot save us because every technology we have requires use of these finite resources.
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