Spreading the long emergency.

[jackshoegazer]

I told a man today that all numbers point to the world running out of oil in thirty years, that most people just think that means no more gasoline, but they're wrong.  That means no more gasoline, no more pesticides, no more plastic, no more manufacturing.  All these enterprises are available to us because of cheap fossil fuels.  Before industrialized farming, the Earth could feed about a billion people.  Now, with massive industrial farming we can feed about six to seven billion.  That means that when oil runs out in thirty years, we will suddenly have about five billion too many people who will likely starve to death.  The man said he's going to go home and forget all about that because he'll be gone in thirty years and it will all be in the hands of "you young ones."

Comments

[anubis75.livejournal.com]

What an asshole! It's fucktards like that which got us in this fine mess.

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

It's hard for me to blame the past because fossil fuels were easily available and how were they to know we would build our entire civilization around it and that we would eventually run out.

What I find amazing is that no one wants to face up to the facts now. Actually, through this lens, the actions of the Bush Administration make sense: Grab As Much Oil As Possible Before It's Gone.