http://transitionculture.org/2008/03/04/how-lessons-from-the-last-oil-shocks-may-help-to-inform-this-one/ An Evolving Exploration into the Head, Heart and Hands of Energy Descent Thu, 24 May 2012 06:51:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://transitionculture.org/2008/03/04/how-lessons-from-the-last-oil-shocks-may-help-to-inform-this-one/comment-page-1/#comment-56284 Terence Thu, 06 Mar 2008 23:02:37 +0000 http://transitionculture.org/2008/03/04/how-lessons-from-the-last-oil-shocks-may-help-to-inform-this-one/#comment-56284 <p>Oops, editor can you correct last comment. 1) ... deeper hole than we were in then. 2) ..and control or make major decisions.... 3) ...but lack of true democracy then and now prevents it.</p> Oops, editor can you correct last comment.
1) … deeper hole than we were in then.
2) ..and control or make major decisions….
3) …but lack of true democracy then and now prevents it.

]]> http://transitionculture.org/2008/03/04/how-lessons-from-the-last-oil-shocks-may-help-to-inform-this-one/comment-page-1/#comment-56283 Terence Thu, 06 Mar 2008 22:59:29 +0000 http://transitionculture.org/2008/03/04/how-lessons-from-the-last-oil-shocks-may-help-to-inform-this-one/#comment-56283 <p>Indeed from the mid 80s to the present have been an absolute awful waste of valuable time. We have dug ourselves a far deeper hole than we are in. I think it could be characterised as the period of denial. Having said that, it was clear that the pro-growth crowd were not going to let common sense prevail and the power of the main elites to set and shape public opinion and control major or make decisions in society ensured that preparations were never going to be made. People have always wanted to have clean water, protect the environment etc and still do now, but lack of true democracy then and not prevents it.</p> Indeed from the mid 80s to the present have been an absolute awful waste of valuable time. We have dug ourselves a far deeper hole than we are in. I think it could be characterised as the period of denial. Having said that, it was clear that the pro-growth crowd were not going to let common sense prevail and the power of the main elites to set and shape public opinion and control major or make decisions in society ensured that preparations were never going to be made. People have always wanted to have clean water, protect the environment etc and still do now, but lack of true democracy then and not prevents it.

]]> http://transitionculture.org/2008/03/04/how-lessons-from-the-last-oil-shocks-may-help-to-inform-this-one/comment-page-1/#comment-56203 Jack Tar Tue, 04 Mar 2008 13:57:15 +0000 http://transitionculture.org/2008/03/04/how-lessons-from-the-last-oil-shocks-may-help-to-inform-this-one/#comment-56203 <p>The whole Reagan taking the Solar Panels off the Whitehouse roof thing is an urban myth. The Panels were actually removed 6 years after Reagan took office. The roof was leaking and had to be repaired. Sure they could have put them back but the implication that the Reagan Regime somehow was making a grand statement of "back to business as usual" by removing the panels is just not factual. Never let the truth get in the way of a great story. I hate everything that Reagan stood for but that don't make it so.</p> The whole Reagan taking the Solar Panels off the Whitehouse roof thing is an urban myth. The Panels were actually removed 6 years after Reagan took office. The roof was leaking and had to be repaired. Sure they could have put them back but the implication that the Reagan Regime somehow was making a grand statement of “back to business as usual” by removing the panels is just not factual.
Never let the truth get in the way of a great story.
I hate everything that Reagan stood for but that don’t make it so.

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