On Thu, 26 Oct 1995 14:23:47 GMT, in <19950ct26.142347.75558@ucl.ac.uk> hammond_g@drkclu.meng.ucl.ac.uk (G. Ruth Hammond) wrote.....

like it or not, without oil our society will collapse. going to war to defend your own civilisation and way of life surely is valid?

The logical restatement of your thought is as follows: like it or not, our present society will collapse because of its intransigent dependence upon oil.

Therefore, do we not urgently need to transform our manner of life to one we might continue to call civilization?

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