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Barbarians at the gate of a gas guzzling empire

November 2nd, 2009

by stacyherbert

Stacy Summary: From what I can tell looking at history, all peoples of every empire at its peak, just before its imminent collapse, belligerently maintain their lifestyles at all cost to their own wealth and their own chance of survival. For a number of reasons, you cannot talk them into saving themselves.
While thousands upon thousands of hours are spent in America, for example, trying to prove that spewing exhaust and carbon into the air is, in fact, perfectly natural with zero cost and that there is, also, in fact, (according to one Big Oil study) enough fresh water, fertile land and oil to provide for a doubling of the global consumer class for thousands of years into the future, Americans (most who, by the way, believe the Earth is only a few thousand years old) continue to insist with an almost religious fervor on getting from point A to point B in the most inefficient manner.
Again, from my reading of history, it is impossible to fight this sort of end of empire bankruptcy of morals, wealth and, most importantly, ideas. The American empire and her citizens want to blow it on oil, so that’s how they will do it. No amount of science or reasoning can stop them. And as they will use any means necessary to get whatever oil remains, it makes no sense to try to develop your own economy using a resource that the Empire has devoted all their military might toward securing. The British, Dutch, French, Germans and other Europeans did not dare stand in the way of Spain’s maniacal quest for gold in the New World; instead, they took the gold-less lands and with them developed manufacturing and trade routes in sugar, cotton, wheat, fur, etc. (Power more at )