{"id":1097,"date":"2005-04-24T18:17:00","date_gmt":"2005-04-24T18:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sustainablog.greenoptions.com\/2005\/04\/24\/like-buying-pineapples-from-costa-rica\/"},"modified":"2005-04-24T18:17:00","modified_gmt":"2005-04-24T18:17:00","slug":"like-buying-pineapples-from-costa-rica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/articles\/like-buying-pineapples-from-costa-rica\/","title":{"rendered":"“…Like Buying Pineapples from Costa Rica…”"},"content":{"rendered":"
Thanks to Gil Friend<\/a> for pointing us to this wonderful essay from James Howard Kuntsler<\/a> at Orion<\/em> Online. Our author visits the New York International Auto Show and notes a “hallucinatory trend” here:<\/p>\n It became painfully clear that the attendees of the New York Auto Show were a self-selecting group of people who were all reasonably comfortable with the belief that America’s car culture has a big future. I didn’t try to debate them; but I did wonder what the quality of their disappointment might be like later this year when the “summer driving season” gets underway and gasoline prices penetrate the three-dollar-a-gallon floor. They will blame the oil companies, the government, the Arabs — they will blame everybody but themselves.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n This reminds me of the piece I posted on Thursday about “grieving for oil”<\/a>: clearly, everyone in the denial stage gathers at events like this, and it turns into one big celebration of co-dependency…<\/p>\n And on a related note, Gil has created a website<\/a> for his “Sustainable Business — A Declaration of Leadership.” You can download the original PDF document, or buy an 11×17 printed poster at a special preview price.<\/p>\n Technorati tags: peak oil<\/a>, automobile<\/a><\/p>\n