http://www.wired.com/2012/08/ff_apocalypsenot/
It says everything will fine in the next couple of decades of the 21st century. These people are living in delusion and denial. Everything is not going to be fine. Just a decade or two before the collapse of industrial civilization, the doubters think we can continue business as usual. But the doomers and preachers of doom are right once again. Business as usual cannot continue indefinitely. And there will be a collapse of modern civilization. It is already too late to prevent this collapse. It is inevitable.
I don't spend my time preaching reality to mainstream media. Mainstream media will continue to ignore the signs of collapse until it is too late. According to Matt Savinar, the speed of collapse is dependent on the amount of bullshit propagated before the collapse. And given how much lies the average person believes from the mainstream media, I'm afraid to say that the collapse is going to be fast.
The collapse is not going to happen over night, but the moment Saudi Arabian oil production collapses, the world will go into a major oil shortage. Saudi Arabia relies on water injection to keep its oil production rates high. But after their major oil fields peak, their oil production will fall off a cliff rather than gradually and slowly decline. Saudi Arabia has the world's largest proven oil reserves. They claim to have 250 billion barrels of oil, but this is likely an inflated number. So Saudi Arabia will likely peak and decline much sooner than most people anticipate. And when Saudi Arabia peaks and declines, the whole world peaks and declines since Saudi Arabia has the world's biggest oil reserves.
And even a small short fall of oil supplies compared to demand will cause major economic turmoil. Even a shortfall of supply by as little as 3 to 4 percent will cause the price of oil to drastically increase. And since there are currently no reliable substitutes for oil and likely none in the future, oil supply deficiencies will cause the global economy to collapse. Widespread famine and starvation will become a norm. Even food exporting countries, like the USA and Canada, will struggle to feed their population in another 10 to 20 years due to insufficient oil supplies. Remember there are 7 to 10 calories of fossil fuels used to produce every calorie of food in the industrialized world. When oil goes into decline, it is inevitable food production will go into decline causing widespread famine and skyrocketing food prices.
The mainstream media still publishes articles on how they believe everything is fine, and we will have no trouble supporting 9 billion people by 2050. I can guarantee you there will never be 9 billion people on this planet because by 2040 to 2050 oil production will only be a tiny fraction of the current levels. Since oil production = food production in the 21st century, declining oil production leads to declining food production. Declining food production will cause the population to collapse and experience a die off. Like Professor David Goodstein once said, "There are 7.2 billion people on this planet. And most of them are reasonably well-fed as a result of the Green Revolution of the second half of the 20th century, which consisted a large part of fertilizing land with petrochemicals. That is fertilizers and pesticides made of petroleum and natural gas. I don't think we can sustain the present population of the globe--much less the population in 20 to 30 years--without the use of petrochemicals. So yes, we eat oil and natural gas".
Like Michael Ruppert once said, there are 5 billion plus people today who exist only because of oil. There are ten calories of fossil fuel energy used to produce every calorie of food in the industrialized world. If you take the oil and natural gas away, you take away the food. And if you take away the food, the population goes away. It is that simple.
So the mainstream media is lying again, and putting a big smilie face on an issue that has no solution other than a die off and collapse of modern civilization. I believe the government is well-aware of the consequences of peak oil, but they lie to the public because they don't want to lose control. I believe the government is full of lies, and can't be trusted anymore. But societal collapse = collapse of the government too, and no one in government wants to admit this. I don't believe the United States will remain united anymore after the collapse. It will be divided into many separate fiefdoms. It is like the break up of the Roman Empire into many separate states. Social complexity is directly correlational to the amount of energy expended. Complex societies require a lot of energy to survive. And since our society is the most complex society ever on Earth, our society is the most energy-intensive society ever. Without cheap and abundant oil, it is only axiomatic society will also collapse.
That's what I believe. This modern civilization is facing a collapse, and I don't believe there is anything to do to save it. It is already too late. But our modern civilization is not worth saving because it has become too corrupt and self-fish to be worth preserving.
So let's just sit back and watch the collapse happen over the next couple of decades.
Let's watch the population drop from present levels or higher to under 2 billion people over this century.
