>On 2017-08-26, PeakOil@Right.now wrote:
>>> Meanwhile, opening up the Arctic for oil and gas exploration and
>>> transportation may be a win for nations with control over the Arctic
>>> Circle: Norway, Sweden, Finland, Russia, Canada, Denmark, Iceland, and
>>> the US. But it is bad news for the world.
>>
>> Yeah, bad news for everyone ultimately. It's really quite depressing that
>> humans are marching right along with these giant corporations as they
>> continue raping the planet but I guess wage slavery enslaves the mind and
>> the body. We ought to be trying to soften the crash - which more and more
>> specialists say is right around the corner - when the rapid rise in cost
>> of oii extraction begins to topple this house of cards that modern culture
>> is built on. The slope down the other side of the peak oil curve is quite
>> steeper the rise was due to the dificulty of accessing the remaining oil;
>> that means more war, more polution, more oppression by the powerful.
>
>And yet no-one mentions the real solution; stop having babies.
I think that'll happen when the food supply shrinks - oil is woven through
the entire modern food supply chain (electricity is still mostly generated
from natural gas and coal):
- soil aggitation and irrigation (gasoline and electricity)
- pesticides and fertilizer (oil and nat. gas)
- processing, transport and packaging (oil, gasoline and diesel)
- presentation and storage (electricity)
- consumption (electricity and nat. gas)
As energy gets more costly so will all of life's necessities. I expect to
see a whole lot more locally grown food and, at a minimum, a re-purposing
of urban areas so as to reduce the need for importation. There will be
more utilization of solar and wind but they'll likely never come close
to replacing the energy density and portability of fossil fuels. The
history of the techno-fix isn't particularly positive.
--- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
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