Full title: "The Long Descent: A User's Guide to the End of the Industrial Age"
I've been reading this and I'm almost done. The main thesis is that peak oil is inescapable and that societies should adapt for a post-industrial age where many energy-based luxuries will no longer be an option.
It's an interesting read. He doesn't say much about energy breakthroughs in fusion which are seeing investment now. I'm not sure if the author has "already thought of it" and still sees the roundaboutness of our modern economies as the issue even in the presence of fusion energy.
I recommend this to anyone who's an energy-use maximialist (I know many Bitcoiners are), it's always good to challenge our views.
Peak oil is a myth.
If your entire argument hinges on an incorrect premise... Well, I dunno what to tell you. Waste of time, etc
Can you say more on this? How are you so sure? I've heard the arguments that prices will adjust and more difficult deposits will be exploited, but how can you be sure the cost (in energy) to exploit won't dip into the negative as compared to how much energy is extracted?
Can't know for sure (induction problem) but if peeps have called for an oil end times since literally oil-for-productive-use was invented and we clever, tinkering, inventive humans keep figuring out new and better ways... I dunno man, burden of proof should be on the peak oil doomsdayers. And, like the ice-free Arctic people and overpopulation people and every other silly outrage hype, I don't put much stock in this.
"On what principle is it that with nothing but improvement behind us, we are to expect nothing but deterioration before us?""On what principle is it that with nothing but improvement behind us, we are to expect nothing but deterioration before us?"
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/7354401-in-every-age-everybody-knows-that-up-to-his-own