Comments on: Addicted to Money: Part 3 – Peak Everything

By: Irelands Opportunity-Peak Everything - Politics.ie

Irelands Opportunity-Peak Everything - Politics.ie — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 11:29:49 +0000

[...] on his blog show a complete blindness to the certain advantages that Ireland has in this new era Addicted to Money: Part 3 – Peak Everything | David McWilliams Even James Lovelock agrees that Ireland is in clover over the coming decades, why are we so blind [...]

By: jkforde

jkforde — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 18:37:58 +0000

Zeitgeist Movement video here as well; also downloadable as 325MB mp4 file

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3932487043163636261#

By: jkforde

jkforde — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 17:32:56 +0000

This is good, slightly over produced but content is excellent and same as David’s…. I think it would be worth this going viral so tweet, Digg, Stumble, just get it around…..

Zeitgeist Orientation:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVrHtbSo11I

By: kevind

kevind — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 20:48:43 +0000

Hi D McW,

Well done on the series. Just one thing in regard to the final programme which I watched last night:

You devoted much of the the last quarter of the programme to the electric car, about how this may let us get on with a motorised society. This is was contrary to the quotes you had earlier from Paul Kehrlich, ie “Americans have bought their last car” and “We spent the last 75 designing the United States [and thence the developed world] around automobiles; we have to go back and redesign it around people”. So was wondering which you subscribed to?

Kehrlich and others such as Kunstler maintain we will be required to drastically change our way of living and whether we want to or not, travelling only short distances, growing food we eat etc. No more schlepping around by car.

Kunstler’s talk to TED on the ‘national automobile slum’ and suburbia:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1ZeXnmDZMQ

By: Al_Synth

Al_Synth — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 16:30:49 +0000

This is great show David.

You should be very proud. The flashy-ness as some people have deemed a negative is completely necessary. The main demograph that need to be affected by these hard truths are the young (including me). This series can get across the volumes of need-to-know statistics to a generation that largely have had their concentration spans ravaged by new media.

Well done.

I want to show the series to my friend who is living in England…he cant access the RTE player from London. Is it available to view online by any other means?

By: BrendanW

BrendanW — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 00:48:34 +0000

David I came home this Sunday and switched on the sky box just to see this espoide been repeated for a moment I had a de ja vu so to speak as I am wondering have we not been here before this week I heard a Welsh woman sort of boasting about this going to be her fourth recession , We are going in Circles
Your back down to Cork to do a gig for Alan Crosbie and Anthony Dinan in a few weeks time and I’m wondering before I get my tickets , will you have your Farmleigh Plan ready to go public with before this function or will you launch it that night ?
Your for now still just part of the pop culture school of economics catering for a pre centage of the general joe public while you get your money also from the very corporate media who played the game and published the big pages of lovely houses along side the bankers gloating about how much they were making while they gave the money out so freely . Our own greed is what stopped us then from questioning and demanding a change to this back hander society we fiddled every thing from the road funding right down the line nothing is worth showing at any China World Expo , from Health ,Education, Transport and Social we have no running model after 90 odd year since our last civil war.
The Real joke is the Government paying for the Unions posters regarding the cuts they speak about but sadly will do little more than this.
As I said before , I never agin paying for a TV lincense when I see what fools this country has let its self be run by for the last few decades. ….We have to get off our chairs and Stay on the Streets to begin a Change .

By: Senan

Senan — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 23:25:23 +0000

Really like the show David. And I follow your pieces in the Sunday Business Post with interest. My own view of the economic outlook for 2010 in Ireland is pessimistic. I’m more upbeat about many other countries.

By: Freethinker123

Freethinker123 — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 03:43:00 +0000

Hi David

Great Series well done, however I would have to agree with Chris Murray above me here. That it is a case of exchanging one model for another, but the optimist and strategist that you are have used your imagination well as you always do and I commend you highly for it. Your needed now more than ever,someone at the hieght of his career and of public profile to say it like it is..infact I was nearly loosing faith in you there for a moment when in the third part you said “If we can’t beat them..suave them” nice touch.

Now as I’ve said you’ve done a great job in bringing it to the lay person and of course it is your job to investigate,analyse and argue these matters. I’m not an economic or financial wiz at all but… I have seen the future.. and you and who ever reads this are gonna think I’m mad. The Future on this planet has as much relevance as your third part was making the point on. That this previous system has failed,though what if I be so bold to say for a moment it was most likely engineered by an elite corporatocracy..and I’ll come back to that in a moment.The future is simple GET RID OF THE MONETARY SYSTEM..and now i’ve jumped light years ahead haven’t I. I’m somebody who doesn’t understand how the game goes? but I can well see whats going on around me with the banks, good lord its staring us in the face! and so you can see why I say its engineered.
Now I don’t usually do this sort of thing..get on some comments page and seemingly rant. This is too serious to ignore and I want everyone who reads this to REALISE. That we can see what is happening infront of us but should we take it as normal,just how it is and hope it will all pan out. We can’t leave it up to politicians and of course we know that..but its exactly the point we’re making here.. BAD Systems and yet we tolerate it,give it a moments notice in terms of time and move on with our lives. The Lisbon..basicaly I think that I sum up the mindset and soul of this nation..that what it boils doen to is we traded our sovriegnty for keeping our belly full and the rest. I don’t mean to lecture..far be it from me.. but I am not the last person to see this nor feel from it.

This is Crisis but also opportunity but indeed what we individually make of it and en masse,to realise we make our realities and if I may get all spiritual on you for a moment..sorry to offend but its just how its gonna sound.. that we are all on a higher level ONENESS and if you don’t believe me then what the hell is everything from economy to an ecosystem then!?
So then..I’ll come back to the corporatocracy. Just a question if I may.. have you ever heard of the Bilderberg group?.anyone..mm..yea I’d check that out. Like I say I’m not some conspiracy nut just getting on here..the very word gives skeptically healthy people a bad name for cryin out loud. And what if I’m wrong? innocnt people don’t run..period there’s still the norm we know..its a win win.

Okay so I’d like to say in finishing thank you again David I wish you further success and know that your balance of observations are spot on though I would encourage you..all of you..to find this out for yourselfs the following keywords : Bilderberg group,NWO, the Federal Reserve as a private company that has pulled of the biggest banking scam to date and Economic hitmen. Realising like the engineering of this recession,wars and this farce of a swine flu now..and it ain’t no conspiracy its just MONEY

Thank you again

God bless

http://www.apfn.org/apfn/reserve.htm

http://www.freedomtofascism.com/

http://video.google.com
/videoplay?docid=3932487043163636261#

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAaQNACwaLw&feature=fvst

By: cjmurray

cjmurray — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 20:04:32 +0000

Had almost enjoyed watching the David’s series. Was great to hear an establishment right-winger very belatedly let rip with points environmentalists and the left have been making for decades.

But am now utterly disgusted to find that David’s big solution is for a giant undemocratic government, a weird hybrid state-capitalist/communist dictatorship, China, to lead us in wasting trillions on a classically stupid technological fix, building unproven filthy nukes to churn out the power for billions more cars! How does that cure the money addiction? How does that cure the “Growth” delusion? It’s like “curing” an addiction to beer by switching to whiskey! Not surprising from someone who denounces Wall Street greed while advertising stock market gambling on his blog! It’s bad enough that the Green Party sold out so cravenly without David presenting this guff as being part of a new “Green” economy!

Here’s another idea instead of David’s thinly disguised mania for more and more always and forever: LESS! LESS! LESS! LESS! Be happy with LESS! Learn to live with LESS! Live within your means! Live more simply! Live within the Earth’s means! If you want “growth”, do a bit of personal growth or spiritual growth! Or just GROW UP!

Best wishes,
Chris Murray.

PS As far as I know, Paul Erlich, lauded in the programme for his prescience about global warming, interviewed and quoted by David about “peak everything” etc, is also against nuclear power. Pity that wasn’t mentioned.

By: Pandora

Pandora — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 14:03:00 +0000

David well done, we desperately need somebody high profile like yourself to start shouting about the start realities of climate change and how very urgently we need to act to avoid reaching those tipping points. I just don’t think many people are aware of the fact that we are very likely to reach tipping points quite soon, after which we risk irreversible global domino effects that could threaten life on earth – or at the very least make the current economic turndown look like a picnic in the park. This beautiful little film is a cri de coeur – but even since it was made we now know that the reality is far worse than thought of when it was made – you can see it at:
http://www.wakeupfreakout.org

What depresses me is that conversations I have with people on this subject inevitably lead to comments such as: “it’s only a theory”, “it’s a lie”, “climate change is natural”, “we’ll survive”, “everyone’s doing their best – I recycle” (!!!), and the latest: “God won’t let that happen”.
God f***ing help us is all I can say. So please please David tell people the stark truth – I can hardly look my son in the eye knowing what we may be doing to his future.