Can we have rationing now please?
Tuesday, June 17th, 2008
How many times have you heard it said that ideas about using less energy, emitting less carbon, or introducing rationing are just not realistic? As David Fleming says in this excellent interview “at present we are wandering in a fog of unreality: there is a sense that we shouldn’t really take climate change, peak oil, conservation, etc, too seriously: they are just tedious clichés of no interest to grown-ups who have real lives to live and real mortgages to repay” . Yet as David explains, we’ll get a real dose of reality if we don’t develop a system of energy rationing before crisis hits us. The oil market is a complex system, and when it breaks down it will do so chaotically.
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