Can the World Survive the Impending Oil Crisis?

[ib.me.ub]

The alarm bells have started ringing as surveys indicate that oil will become increasingly scarce beyond 2030 at the present rate of consumption.

http://oil-price.net/en/articles/survive...crisis.php

Can it?

[Anomalocaris]

Yes it can.

[ib.me.ub]

Time will tell.

[Anomalocaris]

It will tell, but you will just trumpet some other apocalyptic forecast in the hopes of serving the same purpose.

[Oldandeasilyconfused]

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.

[ib.me.ub]

It will tell, but you will just trumpet some other apocalyptic forecast in the hopes of serving the same purpose.

Your little rocket ship won't fly far without fuel, will it.

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And what purpose would that be? Apart from stating the obvious.

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Also read the article. It dosen't say anything about an apocalyptic outcome. It states that things will become very expensive.

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Hopefully, we will wake up in time and move towards a clean future.

[Dotard]

I'll be long dead and forgotten by the year 2030.

So.......

[Ubermensch]

Yes it can, anything is possible. As to whether or not it will, is a very different question. Also the question of peak oil is not so much one of scarcity of oil, but scarcity of oil that can be easily and profitably extracted. We're finding more oil now than we ever have, it's just fucking impossible to get at.

[TheDarkestOfAngels]

Can it?

I would say yes, but I would also state that it wouldn't come out of the crisis unscathed.
I imagine it would be a terrible time to live but I highly doubt it would be the end of the world.

[lrh9]

I don't know.