One of the pernicious consequences of the internet is that
people are free to make sweeping statements to large audiences without actually substantiating their claims, notions, or repetitions of urban myths. Such
poor construction of a position usually results from a combination of ideology, prejudice, and ignorance.
The first two are difficult to address, but ignorance can be remedied by some basic self-education, and specifically, by research. To this end, the most
popular internet mechanism is to use the well-known search engine, Google. The term "Google goggles" is an alliterative/consonant reference to the process of improving the clarity of one's understanding by the simple
trick of typing some key
words into a search engine - and learning!
Jonathan was completely clueless about how much
oil was left
underground around the planet. Had he put on his Google goggles, he might have understood that contrary to his claims otherwise, the concept of Peak
Oil was in fact very accurate, and completely supported by the best data and analyses available.
