It is a non-event because each individual can still choose when HIS oil will peak. HE can decide if having 2 extra cylinders on his next car is valuable enough to HIM to work several overtime hours per week in order to pay for it.
Mad as hatters, or possibly workaholics. Peak oil is not an energy crisis. It is a liquid fuel crisis.
Uh... Working several extra hours of overtime per week to maintain your standard of living is a non-event?
well how much choice do you have when the cost of fuel pushes the ammount of time you need to work over twenty four hours in a day? Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
Background Before the 14th century, popular uprisings were not unknown (e.g., uprisings at a manor house against an unpleasant overlord), but they were local in scope. This changed in the 14th and 15th centuries when new downward pressures on the poor resulted in mass movements of popular uprisings across Europe. To provide an example of how common and widespread these movements became, in Germany between 1336 and 1525 there were no less than sixty phases of militant peasant unrest.[1] Most of the revolts were an expression of those below who desired to share in the wealth, status, and well being of those more fortunate. In the end they were almost always defeated and the nobles ruled the day. A new attitude emerged in Europe, that "peasant" was a pejorative concept, it was something separate, and seen in a negative light, from those who had wealth and status. This was an entirely new social stratification from earlier times when society had been based on the three orders, those who work, pray and fight, when being a peasant meant being next to God, just as the other orders, now peasants were seen as almost sub-human. Causes There were five main reasons for these mass uprisings including 1) an increasing gap between the wealthy and poor, 2) declining incomes of the wealthy, 3) rising inflation and taxation, 4) the external crises of famine, plague and war, and 5) religious backlashes.
Before the 14th century, popular uprisings were not unknown (e.g., uprisings at a manor house against an unpleasant overlord), but they were local in scope. This changed in the 14th and 15th centuries when new downward pressures on the poor resulted in mass movements of popular uprisings across Europe. To provide an example of how common and widespread these movements became, in Germany between 1336 and 1525 there were no less than sixty phases of militant peasant unrest.[1]
Most of the revolts were an expression of those below who desired to share in the wealth, status, and well being of those more fortunate. In the end they were almost always defeated and the nobles ruled the day. A new attitude emerged in Europe, that "peasant" was a pejorative concept, it was something separate, and seen in a negative light, from those who had wealth and status. This was an entirely new social stratification from earlier times when society had been based on the three orders, those who work, pray and fight, when being a peasant meant being next to God, just as the other orders, now peasants were seen as almost sub-human.
Causes
There were five main reasons for these mass uprisings including 1) an increasing gap between the wealthy and poor, 2) declining incomes of the wealthy, 3) rising inflation and taxation, 4) the external crises of famine, plague and war, and 5) religious backlashes.
History teaches nothing? And I'll give my consent to any government that does not deny a man a living wage-Billy Bragg
I do think that in the long term it's important to denaturalize these things, and recognize that the same sort of popular revolts that occurred in the Russian Empire and Chinese Republic have important historical antecedents in the "developed" countries of the West. And I'll give my consent to any government that does not deny a man a living wage-Billy Bragg
