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Hi Eric,
I have had a go at the Amory Lovins brand
of idiocy before. The paper “The Demise of Business as Usual”
was written to apply the remarks in “On the Conservation-within-Capitalism Scenario”
to The Apollo Alliance, which Mike Ruppert and
Essentially it’s this: Lovins and
his ilk know about Peak Oil but nothing about Maximum Renewables, which they
leave out of account in operating a market system, which is certain to be
energy intensive. They don’t seem to understand that every economic
transaction has energy consequences; and, in particular, in a market economy,
it must bear the huge cost of commerce. Just ask yourself how many people you
know who produce the things we need to live rather than transfer money to
themselves or their employers. If you leave healthcare out of account, which
is a peculiar artifice of the diseased capitalist economies, you will get a
more realistic answer of how much energy can be saved.
To drive home this observation, I wrote “Energy in a Mark II
Economy”, which provides an Excel spreadsheet for an economy that is
simple but complicated enough to illustrate my point – perhaps even prove
my point.
Tom Wayburn,
http://dematerialism.net/
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Sent: Monday, February 25, 2008
11:39 AM
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Subject: [The Commons] Critique on
Amory Lovins / RMI
Der Colleagues,
This commentary which just slipped in over the
transom is something
that I share with you not to demean the
intelligence or good intentions of Amory Lovins as a person
or thinker, but because the rather vigorous author -- to my mind -- puts his finger
right on a very important weak
point in the present sustainability debate. Other than that let me give the stage to
the author for his trenchant commentary.
Eric Britton
From: Bram Büscher [mailto:BE.Buscher@
Sent: 25 February 2008 03:23
To: EANTH-L@LISTSERV.
Subject: [Spam] Critique on Amory Lovins /
RMI
Dear All,
I was at the
He also advocated another book of his and colleagues
entitled 'Natural Capitalism' that again combines all the good and the ugly
into a 'profitable' 'win-win' mix for all of humankind and nature... On the
website of the book (natcap.org) it says that they want to publish cheers and
jeers, but that 'so far, the book has received almost pure praise and that
frankly, this is a bit embarrassing'
Now, personally, I cannot imagine this, and
wonder whether anybody on the list has some suggestions for critical
literature/articles
Thanks,
Bram
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