On Tuesday, August 12, 2014 11:07:43 AM UTC-7, Mayo wrote:
> I'm not going to let you nor your ilk turn this into a Luddite spiral
>
> downward where we all sit around the last beeswax candle and ponder why
>
> there's no bread on the shelves or lightbulbs that turn on anymore.
>
>
>
> Understand?

I understand you perfectly. You cannot think beyond what is now. Those apologists for fossil fuels, like you, refuse to accept that there are alternatives and that the only reason we do not have those alternatives already is because of the grip the fossil fuel industry has on politics, the economy and the minds of those who will not look at a future without them.

There is no reason that we have to "starve to death and freeze in the dark"..
Your embrace of the fearmongering that has gone along with the contemplating of alternatives is what holds you and everyone like you back. But fortunately there are those who are working diligently to wean the planet off this poison.

It could be done very quickly if the resources that have been used to perpetuate the myth of fossil fuel dependence was put towards developing all the alternatives that are already available to us.