[aldente]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Kingcoal', ' ')The ultimate truth is that the only thing that mankind has ever needed is personal responsibility.

[Consensi]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('ReducedToZero', '
')I was sitting around thinking tonight: If I jumped into a time machine during Peak Oil, and fast forwarded, say, centuries, millenea, beyond, would the mistakes and themes of the 19th to 21st century repeat themselves?

[Gebari]

This is it, the peak of humanity, at least in technological and economic terms. We got this far due to a huge source of highly dense, versatile and accessible energy. It took hundreds of millions of years for this energy to accumulate. Once it's gone we won't see such large quantities of it again for millions of years at least, and thus we will never come up as far as we are now.

It's possible that hundreds of millions of years in the future, another intelligent life form will arise (humans as we know it would surely have gone in some way by then), harness the new store of fossil fuels and off we might go again. But for now, this is the top folks.