Heres an interesting article on an upcoming problem. http://www.lifeaftertheoilcrash.net/Introduction.html Im sure the article has some flaws in it but it does address some major issues that could arise from the oil peaking. What do you guys think?
the crisis is that industry and infrastructure choose to be dependent on oil at all. that is to say collectively those who choose to think about such things, along with many who do not, have created this inclination out of mostly the concatination of historical circumstance. like any mineral resource a bell doesn't suddenly toll and it is gone. rather as easier and cheeper to extract resources get consumed the cost of extracting those that remain raises and with it the cost of their consumption. a simple enough reality were it not for political fortunes riding on concealing it. for me what is interesting is that we don't need to be dependent on oil, or even combustion in any form, at all. but policy encourages doing so and our individual priorities collectively encourage, even appear to reward those policies. it is somehow at this point, or some point anyway, that we need to break the cycle of nonrenewable one size fits all consumption. i think people also need to understand something many of us seem to have deluded ourselves and each other about and that is that 'the' future isn't something that happens to us but something that we DO to ourselves and each other. =^^= .../\...
