Reply #35: Yeah. [View All]

[Peak_Oil]

It's funny. Soon after learning about the peak I realized it ties together all the weird conspiracy theories I've ever heard about. PNAC, Hitler's drive into Russia, the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor... they're all based on securing oil. I don't understand people who really think the Bush family are wereLizards... come on, guys. But, there's so much evidence that we support brutal dictatorships to secure material resources. Just by using a cell phone we support brutal dictators in Congo and all this violence and pollution in that area.

The unifying theme to the peak is simple scarcity of resources. A thousand years ago it was arable land farmed without the modern technology we have today. Or, it was gold, or trade routes, or spices, or something else.

We don't have enough oil here to continue our lifestyles. It's as simple as that. Frankly, there isn't enough oil on the whole planet to continue our lifestyles for very long anyway. The smart thing to do would be to bite the bullet and just develop solar into a usable technology that would power the US to some extent and just learn to live with that level of power. That's the smart thing to do. What other choice do we have in the long term anyway?

Extend the Hubbert curve for fifty years. We're going to be WAY down on the curve at that point with a much higher population, and the available energy for everybody will be much lower. We're going to have to learn to live with less in any case, so why not just get started on it now before we pollute our living space more?

The war for oil is immoral, but on top of that, it's stupid! It's not going to work! We're not going to be able to live our current lifestyle anyway!