{"id":3546,"date":"2006-06-27T17:48:00","date_gmt":"2006-06-27T17:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=3546"},"modified":"2006-06-27T17:48:00","modified_gmt":"2006-06-27T17:48:00","slug":"terrified","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=3546","title":{"rendered":"Terrified"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every so often I let my attention wander away from the nitty-gritty details of Peak Oil, and I focus on the long term future (about which I remain relatively optimistic, ie there will be continuing civilisation (continuity of cultural memory), albeit with a smaller population).<\/p>\n<p>Then I have another look at what is actually going on, and I <a href=\"http:\/\/elizaphanian.blogspot.com\/2005\/11\/terrified-and-depressed.html\">get terrified<\/a> thinking about <a href=\"http:\/\/elizaphanian.blogspot.com\/2005\/10\/great-dislocation.html\">the great dislocation<\/a> that we will be journeying through over the next ten to fifteen years.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.simmonsco-intl.com\/files\/Energy%20Conversation.pdf\">&#8216;By 2020 the current 85million barrels a day production could be reduced to 25 mbd. THIS IS A BIG DEAL&#8217;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>No shit, Sherlock. We&#8217;re fucked.<\/p>\n<p>(Please forgive the obscenity; flatter language is also obscene when it obscures the truth)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every so often I let my attention wander away from the nitty-gritty details of Peak Oil, and I focus on the long term future (about which I remain relatively optimistic, ie there will be continuing civilisation (continuity of cultural memory), &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=3546\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3npsc-Vc","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3546\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}