happycajun

Laying the Foundations for a Post-Oil Age Economy

Huhhhh? Ever been to London? Yep, well laid out..... What IS the post oil economy? I thought that technology will make energy cheap, clean and abundant - which means attempts to further concentrate populations into potential death traps for natural or manmade plagues won't be driven by energy. And further, if you further concentrate population, who will produce all of the food (and renewable energy) that these slums will need? Waste disposal? Crime? An what about all of the existing "sprawl?" Do you advocate what the dicatator Napoleon did in Paris - bulldoze the whole thing and start from scratch? Sounds like you are a "mass transit" agenda guy, and you don't address what all those sheep in the superherds will be doing for a living. I thought that all this technology was to enable telecommuting and such. Indeed, I work all over the globe frome whereever I am. I thought that one of the environmentally sustainable trends was to consume locally produced "stuff" rather than to ship crap from Hong Kong to NYC for consumption of "fresh" produce. Sounds to me like you need to do a little more work on problem definition before you launch your "foundation" for the Oil Free (ha!) future.