No explosions. No volcanoes. No earthquakes, tsunamis, landslides, floods, tectonic upheaval, no buildings falling. No hurricanes, cyclones, tornadoes. No cinematic special effects, pyrotechnics. No dramatic, heroic rescues. Just a long, slow, grinding, debilitating, dehumanizing, hungry slide into...... nothingness.
The combination of the social destruction of peak oil and the ecological destruction of global warming and climate change could, over this next century, kill more people than ever existed on earth prior to the last century. Together they could reduce the human population to a billion or less, force the remainder to gather together into a few narrow pockets of ecologically and climatically sustainable regions.
To be honest, we have no idea how these two devestating forces are going to play out. The greater part of the human race are urban dwellers, living in a virtual world of technology reliant on incredible amounts of continuous energy for its very survival. We have disconnected ourselves from the land, from the real natural world that sustains all life on this planet, the only world that will eventually be left to us when the energy that sustains our technological world diminishes and eventually disappears and our urban enclaves begin to crumble about us.
How do you show people a long, insidious catastrophe like that? How do you compress the next couple hundred years into a ninety-six minute movie to make it visible? What special effects can possibly show people what this future is going to be like? How can we possibly show people what it is they need to see to understand what lies ahead and which compels them to prepare in order to even be able to survive the collapse and have a chance to be part of the rebuilding.
I know this is rather apocalyptic, but that's the mood I'm in right now. It happens every once in a while.
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I, too, experience times when I wonder how much reality can we digest when it comes to peak oil. Most writings skirt the issue of major population decline that is highly likely as oil supplies dwindle. Impacts to food production, health care and transportation cannot help but contribute to reduced life expectancy. Possible political turmoil could accelerate population loss. A great deal could be done to mitigate the situation, but that would require political leadership that is currently absent.
We get the leaders and the government we elect. Until we change our view of what leadership is and what type of leadership we will need to deal with the downside of peak oil (and global warming), until we get involved in putting the right type of leadership in place, we have no one to blame but ourselves. We voted the leaders into office. Ask yourself what type of leadership will be needed. Then figure out what you can do to help put that type of leadership in office, at all levels of government.
Don't be fooled by the elites: the sheep are being repeatedly told to believe their living standards need to be compromised to mitigate the effects of future GW…
Business/governments of the west are scared witless with the consequences resulting from peaking oil to capitalism: negative growth (= endless recession).
We are nearing the end of the industrial age; the four horsemen of the apocalypse are saddling their steeds and world readying to rid the human parasite.
We live in a world of indifference and without empathy towards our fellow humans and so much needless and deliberate suffering and death (650,000+ Iraqi civilians, Somalia etc, etc!).
Quick reduction of the 6.6 billion population is about to take place (decreasing fossil fuels = shrinking carrying capacity) thus making the effects of GW insignificant in comparison.
Peak oil is being wrapped in GW clothing making it less of a bitter pill to swallow: disengage from the mainframe, spend some time and critically appraise information - look deeper… don’t believe what you are being told by the media.
TruthTeller
Don't be fooled by the elites: the sheep are being repeatedly told to believe their living standards need to be compromised to mitigate the effects of future GW…
Business/governments of the west are scared witless with the consequences resulting from peaking oil to capitalism: negative growth (= endless recession).
We are nearing the end of the industrial age; the four horsemen of the apocalypse are saddling their steeds and world readying to rid the human parasite.
We live in a world of indifference and without empathy towards our fellow humans and so much needless and deliberate suffering and death (650,000+ Iraqi civilians, Somalia etc, etc!).
Quick reduction of the 6.6 billion population is about to take place (decreasing fossil fuels = shrinking carrying capacity) thus making the effects of GW insignificant in comparison.
Peak oil is being wrapped in GW clothing making it less of a bitter pill to swallow: disengage from the mainframe, spend some time and critically appraise information - look deeper… don’t believe what you are being told by the media.
TruthTeller
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