Not just 'what do we do'...

[PowerSwitchJames]

People often ask 'what do we do'? when confronted with peak oil and what it means.

An equally important question should be "What should we not do?"

The list begins...you should not
Build airports
Motorways
Get in debt
etc.

Just a thought, an obvious one, that I wanted to pass on

[isenhand]

I?ve just posted a comment with a reference to risk management on another thread which made me think. Maybe we should have an article on what to do and what not today that covers different scenarios?

[Blue Peter]

People often ask 'what do we do'? when confronted with peak oil and what it means.

An equally important question should be "What should we not do?"

The list begins...you should not
Build airports
Motorways
Get in debt
etc.

Just a thought, an obvious one, that I wanted to pass on

Since it came up yesterday. I suppose that switching to all digital tv by 2012 isn't something we should be doing. I don't suppose that it's particularly energy intensive (though I might be wrong), but it sounds like a distraction,


Peter.

[grinu]

We shouldn't be buying suv's.....

[Totally_Baffled]

Tony Blair should not be :

-Securing the 2012 Olympics - and spending zillions on new construction etc

-Securing the 2018 World Cup (is he fecking mad?)

-Securing his $5 million dollar mortgage on his future earning on the US lecture circuit. (He knows about PO and housing bubble why the feck has he bought a house at the top of the market and secured against earnings from 2009!! )

- Purchasing 2 State of the art aircraft carriers a god knows what cost to come into service in 2012/13

- Purchase shit loads of new Euro fighters to go on the aforementioned carriers?(imagine having no fuel to fly em lol!)

- Propose a GPS tracking/charging system for cars due post 2012/13. What the feck is this all about, impossible to implement, particularly during a liquid fuels and economic crisis!!!

-- Build 1.1 million houses on green belt land , shrinking our agricultural capacity even further.

The list goes on but I think I just depressed myself.

Now where did I put those portable gallows.....

POP

[peaky]

Should not be building and planning to build so many more houses, especially in water stressed areas

[snow hope]

Tony Blair should not be :

-Securing the 2012 Olympics - and spending zillions on new construction etc

-Securing the 2018 World Cup (is he fecking mad?)

-Securing his $5 million dollar mortgage on his future earning on the US lecture circuit. (He knows about PO and housing bubble why the feck has he bought a house at the top of the market and secured against earnings from 2009!! )

- Purchasing 2 State of the art aircraft carriers a god knows what cost to come into service in 2012/13

- Purchase shit loads of new Euro fighters to go on the aforementioned carriers?(imagine having no fuel to fly em lol!)

- Propose a GPS tracking/charging system for cars due post 2012/13. What the feck is this all about, impossible to implement, particularly during a liquid fuels and economic crisis!!!

-- Build 1.1 million houses on green belt land , shrinking our agricultural capacity even further.

The list goes on but I think I just depressed myself.

Now where did I put those portable gallows.....

POP

What a brilliant post! Totally_Agreed!

[bigjim]

Nah, we'll need those aircraft carriers and fighters so's we can invade Iraq and help ourselves to the rest of their oil.

And Norway... their oil fields will do nicely too.

Hahahahahaha! Britain will take over the world!

[johnhemming]

Much that we should change tack on things like "predict and provide" for air flight (or more precisely we should predict stasis followed by decline), we should not give up on things that entertain people, but don't necessarily cost much - we should reduce the amount of resources committed, however.

Eg Olympics etc.