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Growth Is Obsolete

- James Howard Kunstler - Peak Prosperity

In this article Kunstler attacks oil as the vehicle that created the Industrial Revolution which led to an increased population, pesticides, automobiles, and his major bane in life, strip malls. He seems to say that had oil not been deposited in the earth, humanity would have been better off. But the historical record shows the opposite: basic human hunting and gathering societies were anything but idyllic. A common denominator to them was short life spans, disease, warfare, and often human sacrifice.

Kunstler blames oil for conflict, saying, "The first act ran on coal and allowed populations to expand because it extended the extractive reach for resources by colonialist nations." But, again, humans have been killing and enslaving humans for countless centuries before the discovery of oil.

It is in the nature of human animal to better him or herself; to achieve, expand, experiment. It is what individual humans often decide to do when not under the thumb of government, religion, or other coercive force. And oil gave humans just that opportunity. The problem is not oil, or the use of it, but the philosophy in whatever guise that would subordinate the individual to the State. In Kunstler's idyllic pre-industrial world, the individual was often subordinate by religion or the tribal chieftain.

Finally Kunstler brings up, again, the peak oil argument. He brings it up as a fact, when it is definitely not so. There is plenty of evidence that there is enough oil in the ground for another 1,000 years. And if oil had not expanded the Industrial Revolution from coal, the discovery of natural gas certainly would have.

What is NOT obsolete is growth. What IS obsolete is socialism and any form of it that would control individual innovation. What Kunstler really hates are humans choosing to live their lives according to their perception of reality -- whether it be using oil, driving personal automobiles, building skyscrapers...or even strip malls.

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Beginning of the headline :The word that sticks in the craw of many who cogitate over economics isgrowth.The condition that the word refers to has proven disturbingly problematic in recent years, especially as world’s population continues to expand exponentially and the global ecology suffers in response... Read More

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