Jevon's Paradox and the Oil Depletion Protocol
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevon%27s_paradox
Thoughts on this cruel hoax - that conservation is worth nothing. The more you "earn", the more you "save", the more you spend.
The "collective" value of conservation is limited when consuming nonrenewable resources. Short term shortages give value to conservation, but in times of abundance, it's wasted effort.
On the other side, we have idealists like Richard Heinberg, and his new book "The Oil Depletion Protocol: A Plan to Avert Oil Wars, Terrorism and Economic Collapse ", trying to conserve our way to transition before we have to by a voluntary reduction in consumpion.
http://www.newsociety.com/bookid/3931
If "peak oil" is just around the bend, the value is near, but if we can delay it for another 10 years, who wants to stop the party early? Maybe we'll have cold fussion worked out by then!
Well, I'll have to read his book, but for he moment, it seems hopeless. Self-interest demands diversity of energy that supports us, but as long as we can get the cheap stuff, conservation is for chumps. Seriously I have no reply to that, in a depressed anger sense.
Thoughts on this cruel hoax - that conservation is worth nothing. The more you "earn", the more you "save", the more you spend.
The "collective" value of conservation is limited when consuming nonrenewable resources. Short term shortages give value to conservation, but in times of abundance, it's wasted effort.
On the other side, we have idealists like Richard Heinberg, and his new book "The Oil Depletion Protocol: A Plan to Avert Oil Wars, Terrorism and Economic Collapse ", trying to conserve our way to transition before we have to by a voluntary reduction in consumpion.
http://www.newsociety.com/bookid/3931
If "peak oil" is just around the bend, the value is near, but if we can delay it for another 10 years, who wants to stop the party early? Maybe we'll have cold fussion worked out by then!
Well, I'll have to read his book, but for he moment, it seems hopeless. Self-interest demands diversity of energy that supports us, but as long as we can get the cheap stuff, conservation is for chumps. Seriously I have no reply to that, in a depressed anger sense.
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