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To: Triffin who wrote (4184)	5/23/2006 11:23:45 AM
From: Wharf Rat	of 24210

Couldn't find the book I had in mind,so it must be a library book. Moon was revolting, and attacking earth by sending cannisters of rocks down the gravity well. Anyway, energy from the moon must be "1 shot johnny" technospeak... Peak Oil Taxonomy: the Doombat [Insert David Suzuki's voiceover from "The Nature of Things"] The Doomatinus Howlsatmoonicus, known by the colloquial name 'Doombat'. A newly discovered species, the doombat is an offspring of the `net denziens peak oil doomer and moonbat. The moonbat's habitat is almost exclusively located in the contential USA due to their unique dietary requirements. Doombats sustain themselves through a unique combination of SUV exhaust, electronic emissions from omnipresent NSA wiretaps, and the stench of decaying Republicans. Doombats are well known in the blogosphere for their fetish for tinfoil hats. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- It's become pretty clear to me that technology is not the limiting factor in determining how civilization deals with peak oil as a phenomenon. How culture adapts to the increasing rarity of its favourite fungible energy resource has more to due with sociology than technology or geology. While we can't say anything about the reactions of the vast majority of citizens that aren't even aware of the concept, I think it would be interesting to build a graph of the taxonomy of peak oil blogosphere denizens. After all, what better way to offend a bushel of people than to arbitrarily histogram them and make specious claims about the composition of each bin? There are four major sub-denizen groups in the peak oil blogosphere: Corncucopians Traditionalists Technopeakers Doomers entropyproduction.blogspot.com

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