Quote from: RE on Jan 30, 2026, 03:05 PMQuote from: TDoS on Jan 30, 2026, 02:43 PMCertainly the need for any discussion of peak oil, this many years after it happened and no one noticed, is apropos for the importance of the concept. Certainly though it can be used as a marker of sorts, differentiating between those who might be serious on doom, and those adults who still believe in Santa Claus.
In threads related more directly to energy it can have a valid reason to add it to the discussion.
Maybe. But peak oil isn't about "energy" the general, but "energy" the specific.
Quote from: REIts relation to the development of fascism and the police state however is far too stretched for worthwhile discussion. Its just a distraction.
RE
In a political discussion, sure, it is meaningless. Except for all the times when it was considered directly related to politics by all the folks who didn't have a clue about it. Or energy for that matter.
It mattered when it mattered, until it became a cautionary tale topic. But it shouldn't have ever been involved in politics, as it wasn't politics that figured it out but science.