[R-G] [BillTottenWeblog] Saving Science

[Bill Totten]

by John Michael Greer

The Archdruid Report (June 11 2008)

Druid perspectives on nature, culture, and the future of industrial society


Last week may just find its place in the history books as the point in
time when peak oil became a social fact. Combine a drastic spike in oil
prices - up US$16 in two days for one widely watched benchmark grade of
crude oil - with an announcement by General Motors that the Hummer, that
overblown icon of an era of excess, will no longer be manufactured, and
you've got a snapshot of the transformation now hitting an unprepared
and unwilling world.

As this particular milestone takes its place in the rear view mirror of
contemporary history, it's important that we try to glimpse the upcoming
milestones on the road ahead. The one I'd like to address here, as I
suggested at the end of last week's post, is the need to preserve the
heritage of modern science through the challenges of the coming
deindustrial age.