| Debater's rosy argument ignores the fact that no energy sources realistically hold the prospect of replacing oil to fuel the present global/industrial economy.
The hallowed free market isn't going to allow us to defy gravity. When the cost of fossil fuels rises dramatically, as it inevitably must, we'll have a lot more than just a depression on our hands. The world's cities (home of over half its human population) will become simply unliveable and will have to be abandoned.
Imagine the consequences of that.
No solar/wind/tide/nuclear/hydrogen pipedream is going to change this reality.
"I wish I was as cocksure of anything as Tom Macaulay is of everything."
-- Viscount Melbourne |