{"id":1590,"date":"2005-09-05T20:52:00","date_gmt":"2005-09-05T20:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sustainablog.greenoptions.com\/2005\/09\/05\/the-centre-cannot-hold\/"},"modified":"2005-09-05T20:52:00","modified_gmt":"2005-09-05T20:52:00","slug":"the-centre-cannot-hold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/articles\/the-centre-cannot-hold\/","title":{"rendered":"“…the centre cannot hold…”"},"content":{"rendered":"
Couldn’t resist a literary reference<\/a> here, but that’s essentially the message of Richard Heinberg’s essay “Katrina, New Orlean and Peak Oil”<\/a> posted at Global Public Media. Two weeks ago, it would’ve been easy to characterize Heinberg’s observations as over the top; now, as we watch the devastation down South, and recognize the role that New Orleans plays in our national energy infrastructure, I have to wonder if we shouldn’t start preparing for radical changes. While I don’t expect the US to devolve into the kind of chaos described in The Long Emergency<\/em><\/a>, clearly we’ve reached a critical point and don’t have much time to dither. A lot of you pay closer attention to the peak oil concept than I do — what do you think? Has the storm pushed us to a point of no return…? Or is that question itself over the top?<\/p>\n Categories: Katrina<\/a>, peak oil<\/a>, New Orleans<\/a>, energy<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Couldn’t resist a literary reference here, but that’s essentially the message of Richard Heinberg’s essay “Katrina, New Orlean and Peak Oil” posted at Global Public Media. Two weeks ago, it [ … ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n