Richard Heinberg: Are Enough Americans Facing Reality?

[TheGoodChap]

We're in such a joke right now... I've been learning about this stuff for years and now people are finally waking up. You don't need to own a house, so where do you go? An apartment or rental. Oh wait, we don't build nice apartments or rentals because everyone has to own a house, it's what people want! Now your screwed. And the best part is that we refuse to build anything that is pedestrian friendly. If you live in America, you better get a car because your a consumer now.

[twarmerdam22]

why are we surprised Americans dont understand our bleak energy future, our society has purposely conditioned them to this exact value system. Big wallets, big cars, big houses, biggest carbon footprint...

[ClimateScience]

Climate Change is a Threat to the National Security of every Nation of Earth (So is Climate Denial - fabricated Data a Crime Against Humanity).

[springhill1958]

But I notice that you folks at the PCI still drive cars, eat food, have kids, heat your houses, and use carbon, so when you start living like Ghandi then I might listen.

[signalfire6]

@springhill1958

How do you know how they're living? 

[TheGoodChap]

@springhill1958 We don't have much of a choice in the free market. The first thing to do is wake people up, even if you look like a hypocrite. Then either A) wait for the market to realize there IS a demand for new urbanism or B) wait until we have no resources that allow us to continue our bleak, suburban system and then we will have no choice. Better open up your mind if you want to survive in an oil free country. The funniest bit is how terrible our standards our right now were clinging to.

[xPo1S0nXs0DaX]

Im confused...I thought this was a Video about LolCats?

[ChiggsAboo]

@xPo1S0nXs0DaX Fail troll is fail

[mphello]

I have lobbied to outlaw meat (factory farming, breeding animals for food) and to mandate vasectomies for me to reduce human overpopulation since 1984.

If you don't like people advocating legal means to protect the human species and prevent murder and torture, then you have absolutely NO right to complain about any activist blowing up people to stop them from eating meat and reproducing and then make politically correct statements about it being "illegal", even though it's not.

[Almamater8888]

So true. You can't even get people to bring nonplastic bags to the store for their purchases, which is such a simple thing, yet 98% of Americans are inconvenienced by the idea.

[mphello]

@Almamater8888 I know. That's because 98% of americans are subhuman trash. They do not have the mental capacity to compute the magnitude of events. That's why I don't believe their bullshit lies that police officers and soldiers have "stressful" "hard" jobs. Getting shot or blown up is trivial to a cop or soldier.

The single most important thing to cops and soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan is that Bill Clinton had sex with an intern and gave a different opinion in court - not getting killed.

[deskset24]

Great. Everything this guy says is true. But, then this is the type of guy and organization that goes off and spouts out bigotry about how wonderful artists and entertainers are, while condemning academicians and mathematicians & computer scientists. Yes, academicians have their flaws, but they are still infinitely more useful to the world than entertainers & artists.

[signalfire6]

@deskset24

'this is the type of guy and organization that..."??? WTF are you talking about?  The discussion was about most people not seeing the inevitable endgame we're in, not condemning academicians.

[deskset24]

This speaker is correct. However, does HE & the postcarboninstitute face the reality that the only way to fix things will be to violently break the law by forcibly castrating males to stop overpopulating the planet and to stop CEOs of corporations & bankers from stealing trillions of dollars in the form of corporate welfare and bailouts & by killing all anti-vegetarians & all Republicrats & Demopubs in the USA & religionists in Iran & Saudi Arabia & anyone else who forces unfair unjust laws ..

[deskset24]

@deskset24 .. on others - whether its outlawing marijuana, which is nobody else's business what they choose to do with it, as long as they don't force it upon others - or outlawing the promotion of atheism or homosexuality in Iran (anyone who denies the right to speak about atheism in Arab countries needs to die for their stupid selfish petty cause of censoring ideas they don't like).

All problems are connected. Therefore, you cannot solve one without solving all simultaneously.

[rahmanroni]

@deskset24 Or people could just stop being retards and plan their family. You'd be surprised by how oblivious your average person is. 

[symmetry08]

No use to tell masses we have big flaws in our thinking. Humans are of high-mindedness. Never listen to reality, most of us looking for surreality. It brings elevated state of exitements. Truth brings worries and troubling thoughts that some of us get depressed which will lead to multiple suicide casess. Cannot coupe with simple reality, tend to chase mind obsessions like religeon and cosmic secret brothers.

[billydenero]

People will only listen when there's a massive queue at the gas station or all the bread has gone off the shelves at the supermarket.

[rijkent55]

Time for many more people to pull their "ostrich-like heads" out of the sand.

[Dandaniels1978]

Reality is a dirty word in some people's mind. Infact thinking about it a little more? I'd change the "some" to "most"

[Sundrumify]

Just reading your latest article "The End is Night" (End of the Cheap Oil Era) available on your homepage with your name.

Hope not?! Thanks for outstanding work.

Lisa from Munich

[DCOPYRIGHTZ]

This guy knows what's taking place. It's a shame more people aren't listening.