Resilience - Latest Comments in Economic Contraction

Re: Economic Contraction

DavidMDelaney — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 10:25:12 -0000

What is the significance of the appearance with this article of a cover page from Forbes? It's a bit annoying to be drawn to an article by the possibility that something significant about energy matters might have been published in Forbes, and not to be able to discover by skimming whether that is so, and then not be able to discover by skimming why the damned thing is there.

Re: Economic Contraction

mmckinl — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 18:42:40 -0000

Actually most people are oblivious to the dire straights we are in ... In general they know something is very, very wrong but not the depth or breadth of the problems.

Our greatest problem at this point is leadership. Both our political and business leaders are willfully misleading the public. Without a consensus the damage will be much, much greater.

Re: Economic Contraction

Spsaff — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 10:18:26 -0000

chilling and a roadmap to the future - forwarned is forarmed

Re: Economic Contraction

Helen L — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 09:45:29 -0000

And then there is peak infrastructure, especially in east coast cities. Your water supply is reliant on water infrastructure that has passed its expected lifetime. But your city is going broke and may not be able to sell bonds to raise the tens of millions of dollars needed to replace it. Hydro dams are also reaching end of lifespans, threatening catastrophic damage downstream.
When the toilets stop flushing in east coast cities, there will be outbreaks of disease usually only associated with third world countries. And city fire suppression will become difficult as water delivery systems fail without the tax and bond funding to replace aging infrastructure.

Re: Economic Contraction

SVTransitiongroup — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 08:19:50 -0000

Excellent article, I cannot wait to read the other parts.