Last time, I got lost in the internet jungle, I came across this blog on a book called "Austerity Ecology & the Collapse-Porn Addicts: A Defence Of Growth, Progress, Industry And Stuff". The book has the following amazing lines, which makes an anarchist punk out of people working in advancing energy freedom for the World:
"As a result of our audacity, our ultimate resource, each of the limits imposed upon us by nature that we have breached—from fire that allowed us to expend less food energy intake on digestion and permitted more energy to be given over to our expanding brain, through electric lighting that allows us to stay up after dark, to the technologies of the bicycle, the washing machine, the pill, abortion, and fertility treatments that have chipped away at patriarchy—has required a growing consumption of energy. All of these natural limits were imposed as arbitrarily as the rules and dictates of any illegitimate government. For this reason, one would think that the most defiant possible demand of anarchism—the political philosophy that challenges not just the power of the state, but all illegitimate authority—would be for the ever greater degrees of freedom delivered by the liberatory power of more energy. Indeed the entirety of the left, not just anarchists, in recognition of this potential for liberation, used to argue not against energy expenditure or technology, but that these advances be shared by everyone, rather than just the elite few.
Energy is freedom. Growth is freedom."
All the scientists and engineers working on the working stuff and the financiers working on the cunning stuff to bring energy freedom, KUDOS.
Link to the blog: http://boingboing.net/2016/01/12/keep-your-scythe-the-real-gre.html
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