Important Note
This site features content going all the way back to 2000. The posts you’ll read reflect my views and writing style at the time. While I have gone back to clean up a few of them, I think it’s important not to sanitise too much. This site is a record of who I am and how I’ve grown. Any blog post written years ago may not reflect who I am today, nor how I would write about the same topic today.
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2 responses to “Bummer.”
Pretty good, but I wish he’d said more about why he just dismisses the promises of technology out of hand. He says that alternative energy won’t succeed, but never really explains why. I came away with the impression that it’s more that he doesn’t WANT it to succeed, because he thinks we need to get rid of the “motoring culture” ASAP. My views are closer to the commenter over on Ebert’s site who says he believes in science and self-interest. Things like cold fusion and the cure for cancer will come soon simply because there’s money to be made out of it. You can’t just dismiss that because you think the status quo sucks.
Ha ha ha, that’s nothing, just a little whinge…THIS is how to write a “we’re all stuffed” commentary:
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