The Fatal Flaws

Our consumer economy is based on the bad assumptions that oil will never run low, and that our planet can absorb pollution without limit.

These circumstances require that we change our economic system to one that doesn't need so much energy. Rather than just trying replacing oil, we need a system that stops wasting energy, and wasting just about everything else too. Then we won't need so much oil or so much alternative energy.

Trying to replace all the energy we get from oil is not practical. Alternative energy sources that can replace even a small part of our oil energy will not be cheap, and they will not be ready in time to prevent climate change.