Important links (RE: "Some Unsupported Assertions")

http://www.teotw.net/energy_EROI.html

These links are a good introduction to the challenges of calculating eroi, deciding on the viability of renewables as a total replacement for fossil fuels, and charting out possible transitions from a political and economic standpoint.

The future of modern, technological civilization is definitely in the balance--a fact that is not even on the horizon of academic philosophy , which sits comfortably air-conditioned in government offices. Even a maverick like Manuel De Landa remains ignorant of the implications, despite his interest in thermodynamics and energy. We cannot ignore it, however, and must instead position ourselves as lives lived with this predicament in mind, whatever the choices made.