Translation:
The Leftists' Stock and Trade.
Skip over the global warming crap it's the population projections that are interesting.
The numbers may not be exact but give a world with rising population and finite oil to use this IS going to happen mainly because we are not building a butload of nuclear power plants now.
Piffle.
“As we all know but are sometimes reluctant to contemplate, oil is a finite, non-renewable resource. “
we don’t all know this, in fact, it has never been proven. it is only conjecture. there have been many articles posted on this forum that theorize that oil is being continuously produced in the earth’s crust.
that oil is a product of ancient animal or plant life has never been proven.
this is right up there with Global Warming in theories that have been repeated so many times they have become a mantra.
It’s the donkey in the room, in my opinion. Hillary and Obama ought to propose banning procreation.
A major concern around 1900 was that, given the rapid increases in population, by the end of the century, our cities would be buried in horse manure from the increased need for transportation. I consider both ‘peak oil’ and ‘global warming’ as posing similar levels of a threat.
“As we all know but are sometimes reluctant to contemplate, oil is a finite, non-renewable resource.”
Is this slam-dunk or subject to debate?
Without US price supports from the federal government, Sugar Cane = $40 per barrel oil.
...problem solved.
The more I hear this the more I wonder. Even if true, when you add the oil shale and other recoverable deposits and coal that can be converted we have a 500+ year supply.
Oil costs, but at the moment those costs are artificially inflated by producers suppressing supply and taxation of use by world governments.
Were this truely the 'crisis' they claim we would have alternatives being offered daily. Not the government subsidy supported media-hyped but never get to market BS we hear about now, but real on the shelf buy it now stuff.
The market will sort out what will and will not work, IF we ever allow it to happen.
Did Paul Ehrlich write this crap?
Corn yields have gone from 20 bu/ac to 140 bu/ac in the last 80 years.
Soybean 13 to 40
Wheat 15 to 40
If there is an event that disrupts the supply of hybrid seed grain, the yields will drop right back down to the levels of the 1930s, and so will the population.
A bad summer — volcanic ash clouds or a meteorite, or just a plain old bad summer.
A blight.
Social disorder (”Mexican” uprising in the USA)
Trade war.
Plague.
And so on. . . .
Translation:
The Leftists' Stock and Trade.
As petroleum becomes harder to obtain, that inaccessibility is signalled to the world at large by a slow rise in price over the period of several decades. People adjust, companies adjust, they choose different tecnologies, they invest in different technologies. They order their lives differently, where to live, how to get around, how many kids to have, at what age to have them. Companies make decisions about where to locate their operations, what kind of equipment to buy, and they do all of this amazingly (or not) without anyone having to tell them what to do.
As the relative price of one form of energy becomes cheaper than another, groups of investors pool their money and go after the opportunity. You don’t have to tell them to do it.
All you have to do is get out of their way.
Look back at how much you made when gasoline was a buck a gallon, and compare it to what you make now. Probably gasoline is about the same relative price, or cheaper. What matters is the relative price and as prices vary in relation to one another, you make decisions about your life accordingly. No one has to tell you anything, you figure it out, and the means of communication is the price.
Some valid points are mixed in with a lot of wishful thinking. This is peak oil now. This is what peak oil is like.
Nuclear power is also a peak type of resource, as is coal. Even renewable resources can be peak type.
The peak does not mean that the system will crash at the very time it is at maximum production.
Energy independence now. We ignore this situation or drag our feet at our peril.
This is one of the biggest lies ever told.
There has never been a year in my life where our proven oil reserves has failed to increase. Meanwhile the scaremongers keep screaming that the sky is falling. Oil is not a fossil fuel, and the earth is making more than we are using.
Can we move on to some intelligent discussion?
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The sky is falling again.......
Just remember that the current population of the earth could fit into an area the size of Texas - 35 people to an acre. That would leave the entire rest of the earth unpopulated. Our population could multiple many, many times before critical mass is reached. Would lifestyles have to change? Of course. But all any of us really needs is a warm place during the winter and food to eat. Those things come pretty cheaply - a sustainable forest and arable land.
>oil is a finite, non-renewable resource<
Well, let’s start by not accepting this premise.
Then we’ll move on, if you don’t mind, and reject any assertions that point in the direction of the need for “population control”.
And just how long will it take to build that amount of nuclear plants?
And how long will the uranium mines last?