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		<title>Peak Oil Denial: The Liberal’s Dilemma (Pt 6)</title>
		<link>http://peakoilmatters.com/2012/05/17/peak-oil-denial-the-liberal%e2%80%99s-dilemma-pt-6/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 09:31:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rich Turcotte</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Looking Left and Right]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://peakoilmatters.com/?p=1679</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[[NOTE: This is the sixth and final installment of a subset of my ongoing series entitled Looking Left and Right (which began here; see Category sidebar for all links). This is about Peak Oil, but addresses the considerations and potential solutions from a different perspective than purely fact-based and/or he-said—she-said ones which too often dominate [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Peak Oil Denial: The Liberal’s Dilemma (Pt 5)</title>
		<link>http://peakoilmatters.com/2012/05/10/peak-oil-denial-the-liberal%e2%80%99s-dilemma-pt-5/</link>
		<comments>http://peakoilmatters.com/2012/05/10/peak-oil-denial-the-liberal%e2%80%99s-dilemma-pt-5/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 09:03:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rich Turcotte</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Looking Left and Right]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Individuals can be expected to give dispositive empirical information the weight that it is due in a rational decision-making calculus only if they recognize sound information when they see it.
The phenomenon of cultural cognition suggests they won’t. The same psychological and social processes that induce individuals to form factual beliefs consistent with their cultural orientation [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Peak Oil Denial: The Liberal’s Dilemma (Pt 4)</title>
		<link>http://peakoilmatters.com/2012/05/03/peak-oil-denial-the-liberal%e2%80%99s-dilemma-pt-4/</link>
		<comments>http://peakoilmatters.com/2012/05/03/peak-oil-denial-the-liberal%e2%80%99s-dilemma-pt-4/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2012 09:27:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rich Turcotte</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Looking Left and Right]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Peak Oil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Peak Oil Denial]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://peakoilmatters.com/?p=1660</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[We form our beliefs for a variety of subjective, emotional and psychological reasons in the context of environments created by family, friends, colleagues, culture and society at large. After forming our beliefs, we then defend, justify and rationalize them with a host of intellectual reasons, cogent arguments and rational explanations. Beliefs come first; explanations for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Peak Oil Denial: The Liberal’s Dilemma (Pt 2)</title>
		<link>http://peakoilmatters.com/2012/04/19/peak-oil-denial-the-liberal%e2%80%99s-dilemma-pt-2/</link>
		<comments>http://peakoilmatters.com/2012/04/19/peak-oil-denial-the-liberal%e2%80%99s-dilemma-pt-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2012 09:19:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rich Turcotte</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Looking Left and Right]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[climate change]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://peakoilmatters.com/?p=1656</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The problem isn’t that people don’t reason. They do reason. But their arguments aim to support their conclusions, not yours. Reason doesn’t work like a judge or teacher, impartially weighing evidence or guiding us to wisdom. It works more like a lawyer or press secretary, justifying our acts and judgments to others. [1]
[NOTE: This is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Peak Oil Denial: The Liberal’s Dilemma (Pt 1)</title>
		<link>http://peakoilmatters.com/2012/04/12/peak-oil-denial-the-liberal%e2%80%99s-dilemma-pt-1/</link>
		<comments>http://peakoilmatters.com/2012/04/12/peak-oil-denial-the-liberal%e2%80%99s-dilemma-pt-1/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Apr 2012 10:17:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rich Turcotte</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Looking Left and Right]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Peak Oil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Peak Oil Denial]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cultural cognition]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reality has a well-known liberal bias &#8211; Stephen Colbert
[NOTE: This is the first in a subset of my ongoing series entitled Looking Left and Right (which began here; see Category sidebar for all links). This is about Peak Oil, but addresses the considerations and potential solutions from a different perspective than purely fact-based and/or he-said—she-said [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Peak Oil Denial: Looking Left and Right (Pt 4)</title>
		<link>http://peakoilmatters.com/2012/04/05/peak-oil-denial-looking-left-and-right-pt-4/</link>
		<comments>http://peakoilmatters.com/2012/04/05/peak-oil-denial-looking-left-and-right-pt-4/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Apr 2012 09:38:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rich Turcotte</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Looking Left and Right]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Peak Oil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Peak Oil Denial]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[climate change]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://peakoilmatters.com/?p=1583</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[[NOTE: This part of a developing series (which began here; see Category sidebar for other links) related to Peak Oil, but addressing the considerations and potential solutions from a different perspective than purely fact-based and/or he-said—she-said perspectives. With the caveat that I have NO professional expertise/training in psychology or its related fields, I’ll look at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Peak Oil&#8217;s Impact: Sociological &amp; Psychological Considerations (Pt 2)</title>
		<link>http://peakoilmatters.com/2012/03/29/peak-oils-impact-sociological-psychological-considerations-pt-2/</link>
		<comments>http://peakoilmatters.com/2012/03/29/peak-oils-impact-sociological-psychological-considerations-pt-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Mar 2012 09:46:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rich Turcotte</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Peak Oil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Peak Oil's Impact]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Belief]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[denial]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://peakoilmatters.com/?p=1347</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There is a Greek proverb I wish every elected federal and state official would recite before starting any talks about our energy policies and challenges: ‘A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.’
In other words, the strength of our nation is dependent upon leaders who [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Peak Oil&#8217;s Impact: Sociological &amp; Psychological Considerations (Pt 1)</title>
		<link>http://peakoilmatters.com/2012/03/19/peak-oils-impact-sociological-psychological-considerations-pt-1/</link>
		<comments>http://peakoilmatters.com/2012/03/19/peak-oils-impact-sociological-psychological-considerations-pt-1/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Mar 2012 10:28:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rich Turcotte</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Peak Oil]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://peakoilmatters.com/?p=1338</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[[I am neither a psychologist nor owner of a degree in that field. I do not play one on television, and so my layman’s interpretations which follow should be read with that understanding….]
The human mind is a fascinating piece of machinery….
One issue about which I have come across almost no discussion is neatly summed up [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Peak Oil: Keeping Reality In Mind (Pt 3)</title>
		<link>http://peakoilmatters.com/2012/03/12/peak-oil-keeping-reality-in-mind-pt-3/</link>
		<comments>http://peakoilmatters.com/2012/03/12/peak-oil-keeping-reality-in-mind-pt-3/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Mar 2012 10:23:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rich Turcotte</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Peak Oil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[denial]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[EROEI]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[EROI]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://peakoilmatters.com/?p=1497</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Ponder what it means that half of all the oil ever burned has been burned over the past 22 years and wonder about where the supplies will come from to fund the next 22 years. [1]
Thanks to Adam Smith and those who followed him, especially the current neoclassical economic theologians, we have seen such an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Some Thoughts On The GOP and Transportation</title>
		<link>http://peakoilmatters.com/2012/02/27/some-thoughts-on-the-gop-and-transportation/</link>
		<comments>http://peakoilmatters.com/2012/02/27/some-thoughts-on-the-gop-and-transportation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Feb 2012 09:07:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rich Turcotte</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Peak Oil & Transportation]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Peak Oil Vision]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://peakoilmatters.com/?p=1451</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The conservative approach of starving the nation&#8217;s transportation system is bound to prevent it from being an effective engine for economic growth and could potentially lead to the loss of more than a half-million jobs. (How&#8217;s that for a bill that calls itself an ‘infrastructure jobs act’?) But to add to the insult, conservatives are [...]]]></description>
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