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Can the World Survive the Impending Oil Crisis?
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RE: Can the World Survive the Impending Oil Crisis?
By the world I gather you mean us and our system. Us and our current selfish and wasteful system, probably not.

I've been pretty much convinced of these things for some years:

That world oil production has already peaked and is in decline.

The demand for oil is increasing exponentially. Supply is not and will not.

Idiot politicians continue to play the parcel until they are out of office. My perception is that we need huge amounts renewable energy NOW,but don't have it. Nor will it be available until the situation is dire and massively profitable and even that is not guaranteed.

I think renewable energy would be less of a problem without consumerism. For that to happen we need to come to understand material standard of living is not the same as quality of life.

All economic,religious and political systems are temporary. Our entire civilisation WILL eventually pass away. Only a fraction of our current world population is needed for our species to survive.With any luck, I'll be dead before the situation ever reaches severe personal inconvenience.
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Can the World Survive the Impending Oil Crisis? - by ib.me.ub - December 6, 2010 at 10:40 pm
RE: Can the World Survive the Impending Oil Crisis? - by padraic - December 7, 2010 at 1:06 am
RE: Can the World Survive the Impending Oil Crisis? - by lrh9 - December 20, 2010 at 12:56 am

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