[extropy-chat] Re: peak oil debate framed from a game theorystandpoint ?

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On Thu, 1 Sep 2005, Mike Lorrey wrote:

> Insisting on agri-ethanol will push us back to a 19th century economy
> and ecological devastation. Anyone who advocates it is a luddite who
> knows not what they ask for.


Also, calculations and economics aside, burning dead plants for fuel
(whether recently dead corn or ancient dead dinosaurs) is a low tech way
of running our world that we should be ashamed of.

If we are going to make any shift at all, I would like it to be a
qualitative shift to a modern technology, and not just a shuffling around
of means to find different ways to set dead plants on fire.