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Possible Responses to Peak Oil: Some Lessons from the Past
In the examples I looked at, I found the following results:
North Korea, 1990s: Response was totalitarian retrenchment
Cuba, 1990s: Response was mobilization of local resilience
Japan, 1940s: Response was predatory militarism
My case studies lead me to formulate the following three hypotheses, which I state upfront here to facilitate discussion. However, please note that they are actually developed from the cases.
One Comment on "Possible Responses to Peak Oil: Some Lessons from the Past"
Gilles on Sat, 8th May 2010 8:27 pm
All of the above states could maintain a semblance of order throught their respective crisis as their population were kept docile by totalitarian regime.
I am not sure how our western world individualistic freedom would play out in similare upcoming crisis. My guess : Total chaos.