{"id":3849,"date":"2006-03-17T15:34:00","date_gmt":"2006-03-17T15:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=3849"},"modified":"2006-03-17T15:34:00","modified_gmt":"2006-03-17T15:34:00","slug":"the-heart-and-despair-of-peak-oil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=3849","title":{"rendered":"The heart and despair of Peak Oil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Have a look at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.energybulletin.net\/13964.html\">this<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Lots of things resonated with me, especially &#8220;One of the things that make peak oil\/peak energy so difficult to comprehend is the inability of most people to visualize a radically different existence&#8221; which resonated with my sense of Prophetic Imagination, and &#8220;Mr. Mayor, we do not imagine that we can take away the suffering of your people,&#8221; I said. &#8220;That would be presumptuous on our part. But what we can do is look together at two main ways we respond to collective suffering. The suffering of a people can bring forth from them new strengths and solidarity. Or it can breed isolation and conflict, turning them against each other. There is always a choice&#8221; which resonates with what I understand the theological task to be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have a look at this. Lots of things resonated with me, especially &#8220;One of the things that make peak oil\/peak energy so difficult to comprehend is the inability of most people to visualize a radically different existence&#8221; which resonated with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=3849\">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":[29,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crisis","category-spirituality"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3npsc-105","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3849","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=3849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3849\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}