Comment 68152

By Undustrial (registered) - website | Posted August 17, 2011 at 20:14:28 in reply to Comment 68141

Sadly, once you start stripping away the layers of ideology implicit in modern science, it's very hard to stop. Do you question reductionism or rationalism? How about the amount of funding received from military or corporate sources? And what, once you dismiss all of this, are you left with? It's very important to critique science, but at some point you need to take it for what it is - the product of human beings. And we all have our ideological leanings.

The issue of peak oil may be politically charged, but most are. There's still more than enough reasons to be worried - Hubbert's predictions of the American and Russian peaks were surprisingly accurate, and discoveries of new fields have been on the decline for many years now.

Does this mean we should hand over the reigns to an emergency central committee of technocratic managers? Absolutely not. That's why the push toward re-localization is so inspiring, and why I'm very glad it's embraced by the (modern) peak-oil crowd.

"Today, the notion of progress in a single line without goal or limit seems perhaps the most parochial notion of a very parochial century." — Lewis Mumford

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