Dear Tiger,
I ran across the following ad for a book
Reinventing Collapse: The Soviet Example and American Prospects
Publisher Comments:
"In the waning days of the American empire, we find ourselves mired in political crisis, with our foreign policy coming under sharp criticism and our economy in steep decline. These trends mirror the experience of the Soviet Union in the early 1980s. Reinventing Collapse examines the circumstances of the demise of the Soviet superpower and offers clear insights into how we might prepare for coming events....This challenging yet inspiring work is a must-read for anyone concerned about energy, geopolitics, international relations, and life in a post-Peak Oil world."
So the author has been writing about the collapse of the US for years without it happening (yes, things are dark now, but really, let's not get carried away. Things have been much much worse in the past, and back then we didn't even have ipods), and as for Russia, sh**t-hole that it is, it still chugs along (thugs along?). Not that I have any hope for our Russian Bonds, at least not the old ones...
Back to the book. His thesis is that the US will collapse when we run out of (cheap) oil, since that is what the economy/american dream is built on. No cars means no suburbs, etc.
I think we will transit to electric cars fairly quickly, and expect that we will have to start building nuclear. Its either nuclear or coal, and with the global warming people screaming about CO2, the big N starts to look pretty attractive. Takes a bit longer to build, and we haven't done it in years, but perhaps the French could give us a new "statue" of liberty, symbolizing their freeing us from the oil sheiks. I think they could get it done in 2-5 years.
Your thoughts?
+glenn
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