I would like to engage you in a dialog. To start, let me ask all of you a question...
Let us say for the sake of our discussion that you are in charge of transportation infrastructure energy policy for Planet Earth. If you find a world wide government post beyond your capacity of imagination, you can assume your scope is reduced to North America ... just bear with me, I submit the perspective applies equally well regardless of scale. You are about to make public your roadmap for the future.
Of course, your choices are myriad, with many recommending and deselecting aspects to be considered for each.
Of course we still have countless numbers of other matters of equal or perhaps greater import than this, for one example we need to settle on the optimal energy sourcing formula. But for this episode of our dialog, dear reader, please consider this.
If through an exhaustive, comprehensive and decades-spanning analysis process you had narrowed your choices down to the following two, which in your official capacity, would you select and why?
You will direct your planet (...or your personal composting heap, for you backyard scale folks that are still with me) to set as the strategic goal the achievement of an infrastructure based on energy movement and delivery via one of these. Will you select -
- the worldwide transport, storage, distribution and burning of a highly flammable toxic liquid fuel or...
- distribution of energy using an electrical grid?
By the way, the car in the picture is the E301 hybrid concept vehicle by Chinese manufacturer Chang'An.
peAce...
topbop!
Look at this for a lift in your perspective...
The Journal of Ecological Anthropology (JEA)
http://shell.cas.usf.edu/jea/
oh, and here find The Ecotechnic Future: Envisioning a Post-Peak World...
