JHK examines the tragic oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and
the fog of incomplete information that surrounds it. Kunstler sees this
incident as further proof that the peak oil story is real. Now that the low
hanging fruit of our oil resources has been plucked, the paradigms of our
car-dependent society are forcing us to drill under difficult conditions that
are hard to control. The return of $4 gallons of gasoline is not far around the
next corner and the trauma from this event is already provoking strange
emotional outbursts and pockets of denial from the public who do not want to
get off the path of Happy Motoring. JHK also believes that the escalating and
increasing failures of liberal democracy in the U.S. are getting to the point
where American people don't trust the government to be competent anymore. Ecological
disasters are amplifying economic disasters, which are feeding a political
disaster. In the end, this event may accelerate the process of America rethinking
how its living and whether in fact maybe what we're doing is insane, especially
this campaign to sustain the unsustainable which is underway. Sponsor: http://PostCarbon.org