Reply #6: The 60s and 70s will never come around again, I agree. [View All]

However, there are some similarities. Technology was advancing rapidly, the largest group of concerned youth were around, and that was the time we should've started planning for the future 30 years down the road for a decline in energy resources.

It's also interesting that at the time we should have been contemplating and solving the future energy problems, we were, as we are now, having to deal with social humanitarian issues. Then it was wmoen's lib and civil rights, now it's gay rights. Will this issue take the forefront over energy priorities again?

The world's largest group of youth called the baby boomers, also were confronted with the realities of the "cave-man" mentality of Vietnam and the cold war just as we are now faced with boogeymen like Iraq and other countries who harbor terrorists.

About the only differences I see right now include first, a smaller group of youth who, for the most part, are concerned but ever so distracted by advanced technology & society that they have time to do little else. The preoccupation with advanced technology & society of youth today probably can be compared to the introduction of psychadelic drugs that played the pied piper leading the baby boomers away from their principles & good intentions from the beginning.

The second difference would have to be the minute amount of time we as humans have to create new alternative or renewable energies before our resources dwindle to nothing but incredibly expensive forms.

So in essence, the "pendulum" (depleted energy sources) has come down quite a bit in the last 30+ years and we're basically in the same position: tied down by social issues and "cave-man" wars, still reliant on oil as the main generating source, and with distracted youth who could possibly change the world if they chose to if they weren't so "drugged" by technology.

You're right. Nothing much has changed in a long time. That's not very encouraging. I will hate to see the withdrawal symptoms when technology begins to decline for lack of energy.