| Human population suddenly spiked six-fold during | | | | about five million people at a high standard of |
| the first half of the oil age (1859 to 1970), the | | | | living. Solar energy can sustain only a fraction of |
| result of rapid expansion of industry, transport, | | | | the world's current population. As Earth's human |
| trade, agriculture and financial capital. For nearly | | | | population is culled down to more sustainable |
| forty years hence the industrialized world has | | | | levels, a hybrid of various alternative energy |
| been riding the crest of a monstrous energy | | | | sources, in addition to available supplies of fossil |
| wave powered by fossil fuels all of which should | | | | fuels will likely be used. |
| finally peak before 2010 and begin a steady | | | | This peak of global oil production is the primary |
| permanent decline. Human population will decline | | | | factor behind the 'resource wars' masquerading as |
| parallel to how oil production depletes down its | | | | the war on terrorism. In Machiavellian terms, the |
| own bell-shaped curve. Peak oil is not about when | | | | US does not need Iraqi oil; access to oil is |
| the oil will be gone, but rather when demand | | | | specifically not what the invasion was about, but |
| begins to outstrip supply and production. The key | | | | more importantly as a military geo-strategic |
| issue here is that oil simply cannot be extracted, | | | | solution to control the supply of oil over other |
| transported and refined fast enough to meet | | | | competing nations such as China and India. And |
| rising fuel demands. The rate of this consumption | | | | for that objective, the cost is not to high. As the |
| is in fact about to increase dramatically since both | | | | world's usable oil supplies 'run out' or get |
| China and India, representing about one-third of | | | | turned-off and the world food supply begins to |
| the world's population, are rapidly industrializing. | | | | shrink, billions of people will die from famine, |
| Our oil based industrialized economy has finally | | | | exposure, and civil unrest. A code of silence in |
| reached it's limit to sustain a human population in | | | | accordance to the 'rules of war' ensures privilege |
| excess of 6.5 billion. Overpopulation has been | | | | and exclusion, with population reduction maintained |
| disastrous for the planet, and still greater | | | | as a generational (long term) unspoken objective. |
| populations will pollute and consume even more, | | | | The only reason why the US and Britain would pull |
| ruining the environment and creating or | | | | out is if it became apparent that they would not |
| intensifying a variety of problems. It is unlikely | | | | have access to the Iraqi oil, or if it would cost |
| that the developed world will choose to end its | | | | more energy to continue the war (and |
| current use levels of fossil energy consumption, | | | | occupation) than was obtained from oil. If this |
| or the third world which is responsible for a great | | | | were the case then the U.S. and Britain would |
| deal of this population growth, it's suicidal | | | | promptly leave. Realistically, the only way that |
| consumption of the landscape. | | | | that would happen is if the Iraqi oil fields became |
| The Earth and its ecosystems are in serious | | | | unusable, for example by nuclear attack and |
| trouble. Industrial civilization, population pressure, | | | | contamination. The United States has been aware |
| and an economics of short-term gains have had a | | | | of peak oil for quite a long time, with peak oil now |
| devastating effect on the planet, leading to the | | | | upon us. U.S. military deployments have been |
| overall reduction in biodiversity. Ecosystem, | | | | engineered with one specific goal: to control the |
| species, population and genetic diversity are all on | | | | last remaining oil reserves on the planet. To |
| decline. Biodiversity is in decline at all levels and | | | | paraphrase the famous line that Jack Nicholson's |
| geographical scales. Industrial civilization has led to | | | | character, a colonel of the U.S. Marine's, spoke in |
| this current period we're in which has witnessed | | | | the movie A Few Good Men: "You want answers... |
| for itself the greatest rate of extinction since the | | | | you can't handle the truth..." |
| dinosaurs went extinct some 65 million years ago. | | | | The chief driver of today's higher oil price is China, |
| Between 3,000 to 30,000 species are now | | | | which is now the world's second largest oil |
| becoming extinct each year; these incredible rates | | | | importer after the US and whose demand is |
| of extinction are 1000 to 10,000 times the | | | | growing exponentially. Supply cannot keep up with |
| expected norm found in nature. All five of Earth's | | | | this new level of demand, it is clear that there is |
| known major extinctions in Earth's long past were | | | | limited scope to increase supply. Oil is transforming |
| caused by either comets, volcanic activity, or | | | | world politics, Iran can afford to challenge the |
| natural climate change, this coming 'sixth' | | | | West and continue to aspire to become a nuclear |
| extinction event will be the first caused not by | | | | power because it has the firm support of China |
| natural physical events but as a result of biotic | | | | --secured by oil. China right now feels acutely |
| factors caused by humans. | | | | vulnerable over oil, because it has only limited |
| With respect to the state of the planet after | | | | strategic oil reserves of its own and Iran is vital |
| global industrialization (the industrial age) is over, | | | | to China's strategic interests. |
| that depends essentially on when the collapse of | | | | In November 2004, Iran gave China the rights to |
| the industrial world occurs. If the collapse happens | | | | exploit the giant Yadavaren field. Importantly, |
| soon and catastrophically, the Earth will be able to | | | | China plans to bring this oil into China, not across |
| retain a high degree of biological diversity for | | | | the Indian ocean and through the Malacca Straits |
| millions of years to come. If it happens late or | | | | but by pipeline across central Asia, free from |
| gradually, the biological diversity of the planet will | | | | surveillance of the US fleet. China's attitude to Iran |
| be critically degraded. The likelihood of mankind's | | | | is clear with its refusal to; it has condemn Sudan |
| long-tem survival decreases with each passing | | | | over continued mass killings in Darfur, after Sudan |
| year of the industrial age (because the ecologically | | | | allowed it to build a 500 mile pipeline to the coast. |
| diverse biosphere which supports higher life forms | | | | Iran's President Mahomoud Ahmadinejad can |
| is being destroyed at such a rapid rate). Peak oil is | | | | therefore be assured that China will veto any |
| the underlying condition forcing change. That is to | | | | attempt to win UN approval for military |
| say, we have reached the point where our annual | | | | intervention in Iran. |
| consumption of oil is considerably greater than our | | | | We may have already witnessed mass genocide |
| annual ability to develop new sources. No matter | | | | and warfare unfolding in connection with oil related |
| what anyone does, our oil-based global economy | | | | conflicts from: Chechnya to Nigeria, Argentina to |
| cannot continue for much longer in its current | | | | the Sudan, and most formidably in the Middle East |
| form --at current population levels. Incidentally, | | | | all concern or are related to oil fields. To |
| greenhouse gasses which are currently around | | | | inhabitants of Western countries whose industries |
| 380 ppm., and rising about 2 ppm. per year should | | | | directly benefited from the seemingly unlimited |
| not reach severely dangerous levels for at least | | | | flow of cheap oil, oil is referred to as "black gold". |
| another generation or two. | | | | But for many others, particularly the inhabitants |
| For the last three hundred years, the key to | | | | of poor oil-producing countries, oil is referred to as |
| prosperity has been the replacement of human | | | | the "devil's tears". |
| skill with mechanical energy --steam for sails, fossil | | | | Since the US is the world's sole remaining super |
| fuels for coal. Most of the human race is totally | | | | power, it is in a position to keep much of the |
| reliant on oil, almost everything we do requires it | | | | world's oil production to itself for a while. As |
| in some form from transportation to plastics, | | | | President Bush once declared, "The US lifestyle is |
| from food and water production to | | | | not negotiable!". As global production falls, there |
| pharmaceuticals, from manufacturing to electricity, | | | | are basically two approaches to securing sufficient |
| from sewage management to defense, and of | | | | oil: one is to expropriate the production amounts |
| course as a consequence of this reliance when oil | | | | that are previously being used by other nations, |
| prices rise the stock markets become uncertain | | | | and the other is to reduce consumption. It is very |
| and under extreme circumstances liable to crash. | | | | difficult to decrease per-capita consumption, so |
| So when oil becomes too expensive we can look | | | | about the only way to decrease consumption is |
| forward to economic collapse, war, starvation, | | | | by decreasing the population. Decreasing the |
| disease and a rapid descent down the population | | | | population of other countries will have little or no |
| bell-curve to perhaps less than half of Earth's | | | | effect on the US demand for consumption of oil |
| current human population. | | | | --the only way to decrease US consumption is to |
| Alternatives to oil are presumed to be somehow | | | | forcibly reduce the U.S. population through war. |
| independent from oil, while in reality, these | | | | Since nuclear bombs exploded on Hiroshima and |
| alternatives are derived in some way from oil. It | | | | Nagasaki in 1945, the possibility of an atomic |
| takes massive amounts of oil and other scarce | | | | Armageddon has made the use of such WMDs |
| resources to locate and mine the raw materials | | | | unconscionable. Recently however the word |
| (silver, copper, platinum, uranium, etc.) necessary | | | | 'nuclear' has been resurfacing back into the |
| to build solar panels, wind turbines, and nuclear | | | | vocabulary of American policy with the |
| power plants. It takes more oil to construct these | | | | development of 'limited nuclear weapons'. Small or |
| alternatives and even more oil to distribute them, | | | | limited nuclear weapons are used in the battlefield |
| maintain them, and then to adapt them to a | | | | against armored tanks, or to penetrate deeply |
| particular infrastructure. | | | | fortified enemy bunkers. A low yield nuclear |
| At the current level of global production, other | | | | weapon is typically one with a force less than 5 |
| fossil energy sources like coal, cannot effectively | | | | kilotons, or 5,000 tones of TNT. The bomb |
| replace oil. Natural gas extraction will peak a few | | | | dropped on Hiroshima by comparison was |
| years after oil, while extraction rates for coal will | | | | approximately 15 kilotons. A one-kiloton nuclear |
| peak in decades. What's more the production | | | | weapon detonated 20 to 50 feet underground |
| processes to convert coal into a substitute for oil | | | | would dig a crater the size of 'ground zero' in New |
| would use more energy than they produce, and in | | | | York city, ejecting one million cubic feet of |
| fact function as net energy losers. The same can | | | | radioactive debris. |
| be said of nuclear power (apart from radiation | | | | The end of cheap and plentiful energy will cause |
| and storage dangers) produces the very same | | | | the world economy to decline, competition for |
| net energy loss problem. Solar energy (excluding | | | | remaining energy resources will grow, prices will |
| electromagnetic energy from the vacuum) as well | | | | rise, countries will undergo acute economic and |
| as all other available energy sources combined | | | | political changes, and the global human carrying |
| cannot produce the necessary volume of energy | | | | capacity will steadily plunge. The nation-state is |
| derived currently from oil. | | | | becoming a devolved entity. The current |
| With respect to ethanol, far more energy is | | | | transnational global economy will disappear due to |
| expended in planting, fertilizing, growing, harvesting | | | | prohibitive energy costs needed to transport hard |
| and processing than its end product renders. No | | | | goods and services globally. Human civilization will |
| other energy source can fly planes or drive | | | | likely be survived by globally distributed 'Regional |
| heavy trucks and machinery like oil. Further, most | | | | Hubs'; each 'Hub' comprised of up to millions of |
| of the world's fertilizer is now made from natural | | | | people all digitally linked as a Network --in mutable, |
| gas (which is subject to the same Peak curve as | | | | fluid and non-territorial fashion. |
| oil). While most of the world's pesticides are made | | | | According to Alexander Kiy, author of fiction |
| from oil. As fuel prices double and triple in the | | | | novel: Fear Kindness Love / Earth Ascending |
| coming years after the peak, the fields of | | | | 2012, humans are really Interdimensional light |
| agriculture, food distribution, and transport will | | | | beings with an eternal life and galactic |
| certainly be heavily impactedor shut-down. | | | | consciousness. This crisis of fear we are in does |
| Consider that there are 10 calories of | | | | not have to be one of energy or economy, but |
| hydrocarbon energy in every calorie of food | | | | of soulful release. Fear Kindness Love / Earth |
| consumed on the planet. When the oil and natural | | | | Ascending 2012 is available in print and download |
| gas are taken away, food as will disappear. | | | | through "Lulu ( the world's fastest growing |
| World wide solar energy can support at most 500 | | | | provider of print-on-demand books. |
| million people at a very low standard of living, or | | | | |