Re: Power and civilization

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I'm reading John Varley's Slow Apocalypse. The premise is that all
un-processed petroleum is destroyed by an act of bio-terrorism. In the
middle of it right now, but so far it's scaring the spit out of me.

john

On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 5:26 PM, <[email protected]> wrote:

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> Twas in Last And First Men, by Olaf Stapledon, I think, where all future
> civilizations had their power based upon alcohol. Nothing stored from the
> past was left.
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> In a message dated 11/29/2012 12:58:45 P.M. US Mountain Standard Tim,
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> The measure of a civilization could be said to be it's consumption of
> energy and how it uses resources.  Conspicuous v. sustainable...
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