Stone age solutions for stone age problems
100,000 year old
Steam age
Peak oil is the uninvited fairy that curses the princess to die in 16 years
Handlemaker Bank is the 13th fairy
The Bank can't reverse the curse only mitigate the effects
What is needed is leadership and incentives to mitigate effects
Without leadership predictable events may result in avoidable suffering and economic losses
Banking and investment are core of functioning economies. New economies require new banking and investment solutions.
Energy component:
Energy is like a currency. Oil, gas, hydrogen, or stored electrical power.
Used by elites.
New component:
Promote positive post oil future by funding and profiting from the post oil economy
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/gobekli-tepe.html?c=y&page=1 'To Schmidt and others, these new findings suggest a novel theory of civilization. Scholars have long believed that only after people learned to farm and live in settled communities did they have the time, organization and resources to construct temples and support complicated social structures. But Schmidt argues it was the other way around: the extensive, coordinated effort to build the monoliths literally laid the groundwork for the development of complex societies.' Interesting theory - but why? What was the problem building temples solved? Why was building temples cheaper than the alternative? what was that alternative? 'Hodder is fascinated that Gobekli Tepe's pillar carvings are dominated not by edible prey like deer and cattle but by menacing creatures such as lions, spiders, snakes and scorpions. "It's a scary, fantastic world of nasty-looking beasts," he muses. Whi
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