Re: Hanson

This is silliness bordering on denial. Petroleum IS running out, as even the
IEA has recently acknowledged. Why do social 'scientists' like Stremlin and
Spectors have such trouble facing up to a well-attested and accepted fact?
You may not want to believe Hanson but you can hardly continue this absurd
ostrich performance in the face of expert opinion and the statements of
international agencies tasked with dealing with the matter. Or perhaps you
can, I dunno. Either way, it shows the utter pointlessness of even debating
you. I, too, shall be unsubbing.

Mark Jones


----- Original Message -----
From: Boris Stremlin <bc70219@binghamton.edu>
To: WORLD SYSTEMS NETWORK <wsn@csf.colorado.edu>
Sent: Thursday, August 26, 1999 9:49 PM
Subject: Re: Hanson


> I couldn't have said it better myself.  Off-list commentary used with
> permission of the author.
>
> On Wed, 25 Aug 1999, Spectors wrote:
>
> > I'm about finished responding to Hanson. His comment:
> >
> > "It is not necessary to understand all the complexities of the social
> > world."
> >
> > marks him as someone who actually is not concerned with investigating
the
> > world, but rather advancing his own science-fiction agenda.  His last
> > response to you, complete with a 25 year old news article about oil
> > shortages is very silly. One could argue that the shortage of fresh air
in
> > parts of Mexico City prove that the Earth is about to run out of oxygen.
> > Furthermore, there were very specific political-economic factors that
caused
> > that uneveness of oil distribution, and  fact that the oil shortage of
25
> > years ended is what completely discredits his argument. Usually doomsday
> > folks don't come back 25 years after they were proven wrong and say:
"That
> > proves I'm right!"
>
> By the way, Jay has yet to enlighten us as to how the obsolete "social
> mentality" has led us to the energy crisis, when in fact prior to the rise
> of "physical world mentality" such crises did not occur.
>
> --
> Boris Stremlin
> bc70219@binghamton.edu
>
>