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Jerome a Paris on January 12, 2007 - 5:31am Permalink | Subthread | Comments top

Your BBC graph is indeed significant in thatit obliviously expects unimpeded, regular demand growth over the next 25 years.

When will we learn that the solution is on the demadn side, not on the supply side???

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Luis de Sousa on January 12, 2007 - 5:45am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

Given the brilliant sentence of “life without cars and trucks is unimaginable” I think we’ll have to learn that the hard way…

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Chris Vernon on January 12, 2007 - 6:27am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

It's strange they use the term “unimaginable” to describe a time barely one human lifespan ago. Unimaginable better describes the notion of continued material growth and increasing rate of drawdown on a clearly finite resource base.

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Seth on January 12, 2007 - 7:01pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

Amen.

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Gilles on January 14, 2007 - 4:35am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

And, if I can add a comment, an "unimaginable" situation actually experienced by 80 % of the current mankind. They are of course not totally deprived of transportation means powered by thermal engines, but have only a very limited access to them (and probably much less than Europe in 2050 in any case).

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