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Originally Posted by aerohead
Why would civilized people work and save for 50-weeks a year in order to travel to a remote,energy-devoid, backwoods area to live like a third-worlder for two weeks? And be delighted to do it?
If everyone had been exposed to back-packing,they might be able to discern between need and want.Seventeen Terra-Watts might not be a number fixed in cement,in a western world without continuous Hedonic adaptation driven by Madison Avenue?
Again,public education!
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This is very true. Civilization will be much smaller and simpler after the age of fossil fuel when we will be generally relegated back to muscle and firewood.
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