by Serial_Worrier » Sun 15 Feb 2009, 18:27:18
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('shortonoil', '[')b]pstarr said:
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'N')ot this idiotic conversation again.
Modern agriculture==petroleum. Or soil is a mechanism to convert petroleum to food. The Green Revolution----hybridized seeds, irrigation, mechanization, cultivation and weed control, fertilizer and biocides, on-farm processing, preservatives, refrigeration, timely shipment and distribution----is a simple function of inexpensive and unfailingly available petroleum.
Do we believe in peak oil? (Say yes) Good
That means we believe in peak food
Yes, the same idiotic conversation! It didn’t happen 40 years ago, so that is proof that it is not going to happen today! Isn’t this circular logic without the use of neural path ways; sort of like the same logic used by the dinasours just before a mother big snowball blasted out a 100 billion cubic meters of the Yucatan Peninsula.
We will probably never know why most people can not understand that once a complex system becomes unstable, it is likely to start behaving chaotically, and that all complex systems eventually become unstable. Genetic predisposition, failure in early childhood development, nutrient deficiencies, lead paint - we may never understand what has shut their brains down.
But, I do appreciate your diligence in addressing these consist displays of cephalic collapse. You know - the cessation of higher brain functions in rudimentary primates. But how do you handle this constant exhibition of de-evolution?
Do you think when TSHTF that most people will simply devolve to blubbering idiots over night?
Not that we're going to be running out of petroleum any time soon.
