Check out the video.

Jim does not stand up well under Colbert's satire.

His vision depends upon the corporate/political  status quo holding sway.  Maybe it will?

But with even the horse powered amish embracing solar PV, his post-apocalytic scenario seems anachronistic.

When Colbert pointed out that peak oil is surely a fantasy, given all the areas off limits to drilling or under-exploited (siberia for one), Jim quickly shifted to claiming that oil wasn't about to end.  

But instead claiming that rising prices would make Walmart's warehouse on wheels impossible.  No more salad shooters from China?  Say it isn't so Jim!  

Most of us go through one salad shooter per month now.

Jim please! It is peak GHG, not peak oil that is the main problem.  Personally I think he might be  techno-phobic. Afraid of plugin bikes running on solar panels?  How quaint.

He really wants to go back to a world made by hand.  Did he really have a big Y2K fixation too?  Hehey.  Colbert's research staff (an intern who googled "Kunstler" and "Y2K") busted him?  'Fraid so.  Check it, check it out now.

De-nile Ain't just a river in Egypt Jim.

"So I'll stick with a wait and see flag for a while longer."

(Kunstler on Y2K apocalypse fizzle, mid-January 2000.)  Didn't he see the Bushwacking coming?  

What has been the biggest disaster in recent history that enabled many other disasters?   

Oil war, peak climate change, destruction of habeus corpus and the US constitution, official state kidnapping, torture, and murder "special rendition", destruction of US manufacturing, job, and tax base.  Many others did foresee the horror of the Bush appointment and neocon ascension.

Hmmm.  Kunstler is some clairvoyant.

Better polish that crystal ball a bit.

Meanwhiile, how about a prediction on cap and trade?

My prediction?  This mode of "pricing carbon" will allow corporations to avoid real GHG amelioration and hedge funds to build a bubble in energy prices.

Starting at the emission permit stage it will be inflated all through the economy.  

Just like the mortgage bubble started at the level of overlooking the individual customer's likely ability to make monthly payments.  This carbon permit/energy bubble will start by overlooking past hedge fund trading problems.

And overlooking the warning sign.  Many corporate CEOs favor cap and trade.  Because it is a diversion?  Yep.

How about a response now?  Too VIP fresh from Colbert?  To post on a populist e-rag?