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