Possibly an odd thing for me to say here, but I would love to be wrong.

I would love for everything I am about to write in the days/months to come to be total crap. I’d love for someone to post a point of view which was well supported with both reason and evidence which showed that oil was not finite, or that it was not filling so many roles which we aren’t even looking for something else to fill, or that we are working on sensible, workable solutions for the peak oil situation. Hydrogen fuel-cells are not a replacement for oil, since there are no hydrogen lakes. Hydrogen is an energy carrier, not an energy source. As such it can’t replace oil. No one even bother suggesting nuclear, the argument there is too easy to bother with.

I would love for someone to show that we are not deforesting the planet. That, year on year, we are not losing anchient forests and jungle and rainforest. Anchient is the key modifier there. New growth is meaningless. A new growth forest contains only a fraction of the bio-diversity of an anchient forest. A new growth forest often only contains one species of tree also, which makes matters even worse.

If someone could come along and prove that we are not spewing so many greenhouse gasses into the atmosphere that there is no other inevitable result than widespread climate change that would be great. If you could even prove that Mark Lynas (Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet) is wrong, that global climate change is not going to reach six degrees (or over) if we make it reach three degrees, or that if the global climate does reach six degrees that this would be inconsequential for non-human life on the planet then that would be something.

Maybe you would even be so good as to disprove the assertion that we are responsible for the destruction and extinction of over 200 species a day.

No, I would love to be wrong. I would love it if business as usual was an option. It would mean I was in the minority of crazies instead of being in the minority of sane people.

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