Green Options » mobility http://greenoptions.com/tag/mobility Posts tagged 'mobility' Thu, 15 May 2008 17:49:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en Peak Oil Is Gonna Make It A Big World After All http://ecolocalizer.com/2008/05/15/peak-oil-is-gonna-make-it-a-big-world-after-all/ http://ecolocalizer.com/2008/05/15/peak-oil-is-gonna-make-it-a-big-world-after-all/#comments Thu, 15 May 2008 17:49:55 +0000 The Dave Room http://ecolocalizer.com/2008/05/15/peak-oil-is-gonna-make-it-a-big-world-after-all/ In my talks, I have talked a lot about reinventing normal life and in particular our notions of mobility (among other things)…
Its a Small WorldPart and parcel is this idea that it’s a small world. We get this small world idea from Disneyland as kids (recall hearing mechanical children swaying to the refrain “Its a small world after all”) as well as from seemingly serendipitous encounters that are probably statistically ordinary in a world were people jet and motor around the country. It is easy to think that the world is small when one can get from point A anywhere in the global economy to point B anywhere in the global economy within a matter of hours (rather than days or months). It makes it easy for us spread out families and friends as people chase paychecks and jobs across the country if not the planet.

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