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Alternet has an interesting article on peak oil:We must imagine a future without cars
It's not as panic-stricken as articles I have posted in the past. It's funny though - because I walked into our house yesterday in the afternoon and I could feel that there was no power on. Matt was working up stairs and pulled a circuit and shut off the power for the house (btw - the electrics for my uncle's house are FUCKED but that's another story). Anyway - I've always had this weird ability to tell when there is no electrical power going on. Sometimes when I was little and there was a thunderstorm which knocked out a transformer - it would wake me up. Not the rain or thunder - but an absence of something that was always present which is no longer there. The absence or stillness is what woke me up. It's an uncomfortable feeling at first - but it goes aways quickly. Sort of reminds me of the first month after quitting smoking - when your body and your lungs are just starting to relax and get used to not having that incessant 'need' on your shoulders driving you all the time.
Anyway - I walked in and I could just tell that there was no power on and then I had the creepiest idea that walking through houses with no lights on or with maybe kerosene lamps might be the way I spend a large portion of my future life. And that the present where we are connected to everything and everyone through the Internet and cell phones and all of our electronic toys might just seem like a distant dream in about 20 years. It was really disturbing.
No matter what happens - as long as we find a way to keep the Internet up and keep making new computers - I don't care. Horse-drawn carriages - totally down with it. Making my own clothers with a foot-pumped Singer sewing machine. Not a problem.
No Internet though? The mind shudders and rebels at the thought.....
It's not as panic-stricken as articles I have posted in the past. It's funny though - because I walked into our house yesterday in the afternoon and I could feel that there was no power on. Matt was working up stairs and pulled a circuit and shut off the power for the house (btw - the electrics for my uncle's house are FUCKED but that's another story). Anyway - I've always had this weird ability to tell when there is no electrical power going on. Sometimes when I was little and there was a thunderstorm which knocked out a transformer - it would wake me up. Not the rain or thunder - but an absence of something that was always present which is no longer there. The absence or stillness is what woke me up. It's an uncomfortable feeling at first - but it goes aways quickly. Sort of reminds me of the first month after quitting smoking - when your body and your lungs are just starting to relax and get used to not having that incessant 'need' on your shoulders driving you all the time.
Anyway - I walked in and I could just tell that there was no power on and then I had the creepiest idea that walking through houses with no lights on or with maybe kerosene lamps might be the way I spend a large portion of my future life. And that the present where we are connected to everything and everyone through the Internet and cell phones and all of our electronic toys might just seem like a distant dream in about 20 years. It was really disturbing.
No matter what happens - as long as we find a way to keep the Internet up and keep making new computers - I don't care. Horse-drawn carriages - totally down with it. Making my own clothers with a foot-pumped Singer sewing machine. Not a problem.
No Internet though? The mind shudders and rebels at the thought.....
