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Oil peak? (and ramifications)
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There's a broad concensus among Western scientists that peak oil production is here or will be soon. The demand for oil continues to rise, as the Western lifestyles and population continue in their race against nature and sustainability, and poorer countries 'develop' their economies by adopting the lifestyles and economies of the West, which are built on the easy availability and cheapness of oil. The predictions about when oil will run out vary, but the concensus is that in 50 years time we'll be buggered. The only alternate viewpoints I can find are on conspiracy sites like David Icke's and this one.
The worry I have is that when oil starts to run out, soon(!), and does run out, (fairly soon!), the whole house of cards that makes up modern life will come crashing down. In the West we are only able to feed our populations due to oil powered imports of food, and oil based chemical 'farming'. The same in fact goes for the developing world. Either we starve or we fight (and kill) for land, as morrocan roll has pointed out, Kissinger seemed to predict or plan this.
These two sites have masses of information about the coming oil crash and the ramifications for society.
I'd welcome your views even if it's an old issue for the board.
The worry I have is that when oil starts to run out, soon(!), and does run out, (fairly soon!), the whole house of cards that makes up modern life will come crashing down. In the West we are only able to feed our populations due to oil powered imports of food, and oil based chemical 'farming'. The same in fact goes for the developing world. Either we starve or we fight (and kill) for land, as morrocan roll has pointed out, Kissinger seemed to predict or plan this.
These two sites have masses of information about the coming oil crash and the ramifications for society.
I'd welcome your views even if it's an old issue for the board.
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In response to your comment, J, youll find, if you dig a bit, that all the blather one has heard eminating from the mass media about Hydrogen fuel cell research is all smoke and mirrors. In truth, it takes more energy to produce hydrogen than that which is thereby provided. Thus it is neither a viable nor sustainable solution.
This is merely one of the many points examined in that documentary. I think youll find it most enlightening (and frightening at the same time).
american reserves arent that high
they use more than they prodice too
And it requires energy to seperate the hydrogen from the water.
And that's America now. What's gonna happen in the oil 'rich' Arab and African states whose populations are ludicrously bloated by oil dollars when those oil dollars stop arriving? Western aid will have to end simply because our food supplies and 'economies' will inevitably collapse. We can chuckle now, give it 20 years, it'll be our kids fighting wars.