Comments on: Brother Husband http://www.nine-moons.com/?p=1723 Tue, 23 Apr 2013 04:57:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 By: D Christian Harrison http://www.nine-moons.com/?p=1723&cpage=1#comment-142630 D Christian Harrison Mon, 18 Feb 2013 21:52:04 +0000 http://www.nine-moons.com/?p=1723#comment-142630 Oh, annegb, you make me smile! :D Oh, annegb, you make me smile! :D

]]> By: annegb http://www.nine-moons.com/?p=1723&cpage=1#comment-142621 annegb Mon, 18 Feb 2013 18:54:23 +0000 http://www.nine-moons.com/?p=1723#comment-142621 I'm waiting for the book. I have a hard time listening. But I'm waiting on pins and needles. Can't wait. :) I’m waiting for the book. I have a hard time listening.

But I’m waiting on pins and needles. Can’t wait. :)

]]> By: D Christian Harrison http://www.nine-moons.com/?p=1723&cpage=1#comment-142006 D Christian Harrison Tue, 05 Feb 2013 16:43:32 +0000 http://www.nine-moons.com/?p=1723#comment-142006 @Stephen: on timing, I'm fairly evasive. The book takes place "8 years after the oil runs out". As for the the actual depletion of oil … we will never run out of oil. The last reserves will simply become unreachable — and it takes oil to extract coal and natural gas in any meaningful way, so with the end of oil comes a wholesale end of the hydrocarbon economy. @MCQ: we've seen the end of oil for a very long time, and really haven't done a thing about it. It's against our national (global?) religion to speak of it, much less plan for it. And for a faith that runs on oil (globe-trotting leadership; globe-trotting missionary force; satellite launches; centralized printing empire), I'm betting the changes will be considerable. Of course, to some extent, that's what the book tackles. Hope you two have given the chapters a listen! Something about the site's template prevented me from embedding the audio, sadly …  @Stephen: on timing, I’m fairly evasive. The book takes place “8 years after the oil runs out”. As for the the actual depletion of oil … we will never run out of oil. The last reserves will simply become unreachable — and it takes oil to extract coal and natural gas in any meaningful way, so with the end of oil comes a wholesale end of the hydrocarbon economy.

@MCQ: we’ve seen the end of oil for a very long time, and really haven’t done a thing about it. It’s against our national (global?) religion to speak of it, much less plan for it. And for a faith that runs on oil (globe-trotting leadership; globe-trotting missionary force; satellite launches; centralized printing empire), I’m betting the changes will be considerable. Of course, to some extent, that’s what the book tackles.

Hope you two have given the chapters a listen!

Something about the site’s template prevented me from embedding the audio, sadly … 

]]> By: MCQ http://www.nine-moons.com/?p=1723&cpage=1#comment-141979 MCQ Tue, 05 Feb 2013 06:06:31 +0000 http://www.nine-moons.com/?p=1723#comment-141979 I'm excited about your book! Congrats on getting it out there. You ask some great questions, to which I have no real answers, but my guess is that the Church will be one of the better prepared global entities in the face of that eventuality. For one thing, the end of oil will be something that we will see coming for some time, and there will be opportunities to prepare. I'm guessing alternative power sources will become much more prominent than they are now when we get closer to that actually happening. If we don't have any means of reliable electricity, I guess we go back to burning animal fat and the world shrinks again. It's hard now to imagine life without internet and TV, but it could happen. I don't think it would change our worship much, though. The Church started in days when there was no electricity for the most part and I think we can go back to that kind of life without changing too much. We just go back to live temple sessions and talking louder from the pulpit. I’m excited about your book! Congrats on getting it out there. You ask some great questions, to which I have no real answers, but my guess is that the Church will be one of the better prepared global entities in the face of that eventuality.

For one thing, the end of oil will be something that we will see coming for some time, and there will be opportunities to prepare. I’m guessing alternative power sources will become much more prominent than they are now when we get closer to that actually happening.

If we don’t have any means of reliable electricity, I guess we go back to burning animal fat and the world shrinks again. It’s hard now to imagine life without internet and TV, but it could happen.

I don’t think it would change our worship much, though. The Church started in days when there was no electricity for the most part and I think we can go back to that kind of life without changing too much. We just go back to live temple sessions and talking louder from the pulpit.

]]> By: Stephen R. Marsh http://www.nine-moons.com/?p=1723&cpage=1#comment-141910 Stephen R. Marsh Sun, 03 Feb 2013 14:35:09 +0000 http://www.nine-moons.com/?p=1723#comment-141910 When you say the end of oil, I am assuming you include the end of natural gas and coal? So, you are asking what happens at two hundred years out or so? Given the population collapse that has already started, by 2100 world population will be half of what it is today. Two hundred years out, as things start to run dry and world population is at best a quarter of what it is now, you ask some interesting questions. When you say the end of oil, I am assuming you include the end of natural gas and coal? So, you are asking what happens at two hundred years out or so?

Given the population collapse that has already started, by 2100 world population will be half of what it is today. Two hundred years out, as things start to run dry and world population is at best a quarter of what it is now, you ask some interesting questions.

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