tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8861605.post3432978764104176329..comments2024-03-24T11:01:27.668-04:00Comments on Resource Insights: Please state the nature of your emergencyKurt Cobbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05330759091950742285noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8861605.post-55883369039193114232009-02-22T14:02:00.000-05:002009-02-22T14:02:00.000-05:00Let me respond.I think Troy is missing the fact th...Let me respond.<BR/><BR/>I think Troy is missing the fact that there are vast numbers of guns and bullets stored in the homes of people across America. Those who are unprepared may very well use violence to get what they want, not by acting alone, but by organizing into groups.<BR/><BR/>Roving bandits have always been able to make a living off the rest of us. Witness Somali gangs armed with nothing more than a bunch of speedboats and some small arms. They been able to take over dozens of large cargo and tanker ships and successfully obtain large ransoms.<BR/><BR/>In response to SV koho, I am not proposing to monitor the brain chemistry of our leaders. You are correct that Geitner and Summers have been improperly educated or perhaps I should say socialized. Their constant exposure to the rentier class has given them a very narrow view of what the world is about.<BR/><BR/>But when it comes to mass communication, I think we must focus very hard on how the peak oil and sustainability message can break through. We cannot sit down and reason carefully with billions of people. It would be nice if we could, but we cannot. We must find shortcuts that reach their centers of motivations. I say this with some urgency because I believe time is of the essence.Kurt Cobbhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05330759091950742285noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8861605.post-16969315838892388932009-02-16T23:27:00.000-05:002009-02-16T23:27:00.000-05:00Kurt you are always posing concepts that are outsi...Kurt you are always posing concepts that are outside the mainstream which is why I love to read your blog. Certainly we are looking at a sustainability crisis that is not grasped by the economic knuckleheads shoveling money. They view the economic crisis as a financial crisis which their hypothesized largely macroeconomic models suggest treatment involves invoking Keynesian or neo Keynesian methodologies of largely unproven efficacy. I'm not sure I follow the next jump to linking this brand of thinking activating ancient neurotransmitter paths or even particular neurotransmitters.Unless we could devise a way of monitoring the neurotransmitters in the tangled brains of a Larry Summers or a Geithner, I think it is a stretch to associate their presumably faulty thought processes with anything other than flawed decision making using faulty models. Am I missing something?sv kohohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11058401490041584973noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8861605.post-71486100444078016802009-02-16T22:44:00.000-05:002009-02-16T22:44:00.000-05:00If some communities successfully address sustainab...<I>If some communities successfully address sustainability and other don't, it seems only a matter of time before those that don't become the predators of those that do.</I><BR/><BR/>I disagree. <BR/><BR/>Let's say you're in the middle of Manhattan and things are getting REALLY lean. So, you scrape up what little food you have, say three days worth, and march to the suburbs. And let's say you're a good walker and can cover 20 miles a day. Great, so in three days with your food gone, where are you?<BR/><BR/>If you head east out the island, You're in Suffolk, Long Island. <BR/><BR/>Or SE, and you're in Hamilton Township, NJ. Or due west and maybe make it to Hackettstown, after hiking up and over the Watchung Hills in NJ. Or if you go due north, you're in... OSSINING!!! Awesome.<BR/><BR/>Same thing with LAX or SFO or CHI or BOS or DFW or any other major metro area. People will not go wondering looking for food. There will have been an extended period of deprivation first, weakening them. They won;t have the strength or gumption, and this has been proven over and over and over.<BR/><BR/>It's a fact that people starve in place. It takes too much effort to go hunting for food elsewhere.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com