{"id":1573,"date":"2005-04-06T02:22:04","date_gmt":"2005-04-06T06:22:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2005\/04\/the_long_emergency\/"},"modified":"2005-04-06T02:22:04","modified_gmt":"2005-04-06T06:22:04","slug":"the_long_emergency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2005\/04\/the_long_emergency\/","title":{"rendered":"“The Long Emergency”"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s a bit doomsdayish, but this James Kunstler article<\/a> on the world’s energy future is quite thought-provoking.
\nIt’s unclear to me when the world will reach peak oil production, but it could be within a decade. And when we do, Mr. Kunstler’s piece gives an indication of the kind of changes which could be in store for us. The days of the SUV\/Suburan Sprawl Era are likely numbered.
\nKunstler has an interesting prediction for the southeast U.S.:<\/p>\n

I’m not optimistic about the Southeast, either, for different reasons. I think it will be subject to substantial levels of violence as the grievances of the formerly middle class boil over and collide with the delusions of Pentecostal Christian extremism. The latent encoded behavior of Southern culture includes an outsized notion of individualism and the belief that firearms ought to be used in the defense of it. This is a poor recipe for civic cohesion.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That’s not very difficult to imagine.
\nRecently someone, who I consider to be in the know on political\/economic trends, told me the day is not far off when government will be mandating much tougher fuel efficiency and the use of hybrid technologies in vehicles. It will probably start out in California and spread from there.
\nThis sounds 180 degrees off the energy industry-authored talking points we hear from Washington these days. But it probably wouldn’t take very long with $3\/gallon gasoline to generate a shift in the political landscape.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s a bit doomsdayish, but this James Kunstler article on the world’s energy future is quite thought-provoking. It’s unclear to me when the world will reach peak oil production, but it could be within a decade. And when we do, Mr. Kunstler’s piece gives an indication of the kind of changes which could be in […]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1573","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1573\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}