8-8-07 Dust To Dust

Last March's Dust To Dust energy report (pdf), often referenced by the gas-guzzling, anti-green pundits over the past year, has been soundly refuted by Dr. Peter H. Gleick, Pacific Institute, a couple of months ago in Hummer Versus Prius (pdf). There's a short post by Wayne Cunningham here that succinctly presents the fallout.

I posted at lenght about the fact that there ain't no such thing as a free lunch last April here, here, and here. Before that, I posted about the fact that we still live in a "fire society" here, and here.

Somehow, this society has to bring an end to the millennia long "era" where the human race has based everything upon burning something to derive our energy needs. The fire society paradigm of energy production needs to be put to bed. "Fuel Efficiency" is hardly the answer when "fuel" itself, and the burning of it, is the core paradigm of energy production. Solar, Geothermal, Tidal, and Wind power are the currently established and working technologies that don't rely upon this old paradigm.

Everything else presupposes the selling of fuel within the old paradigm of burning something, the "fire society" paradigm. And as long as this energy production paradigm remains the central focus, we will remain at the mercy of the international "energy" merchants, and continue to burn our way into the future, whether it's in a Prius or a Hummer.