[TheSeeker]

Rank these events in order of when they'll happen, from first to last:

1.) World coal production peaks
2.) Oil goes above $200/barrel
3.) Arctic Ocean is ice-free in summer
4.) Human population peaks
5.) More than half of Americans live in self-sufficient small towns or on farms
6.) Air travel drops to below 10% of today's levels
7.) World oil production is less than half of today's levels
8.) Year 2014
9.) Year 2019
10.) Year 2029

[TheSeeker]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('pstarr', 'w')hy?

[Schmuto]

I think it's a cool question.

I'm just not feeling motivated right now.

[Daniel_Plainview]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('TheSeeker', 'R')ank these events in order of when they'll happen, from first to last:

1.) World coal production peaks
2.) Oil goes above $200/barrel
3.) Arctic Ocean is ice-free in summer
4.) Human population peaks
5.) More than half of Americans live in self-sufficient small towns or on farms
6.) Air travel drops to below 10% of today's levels
7.) World oil production is less than half of today's levels
8.) Year 2014
9.) Year 2019
10.) Year 2029

[xarkz]

1. Year 2014
2. Oil goes above $200/barrel
3. Arctic Ocean is ice-free in summer
4. Year 2019
5. World coal production peaks
6. Year 2029
7. World oil production is less than half of today's levels
8. Human population peaks
9. Air travel drops to below 10% of today's levels
10. More than half of Americans live in self-sufficient small towns or on farms

[cephalotus]

2.) Oil goes above $200/barrel
8.) Year 2014
9.) Year 2019
3.) Arctic Ocean is ice-free in summer
10.) Year 2029
7.) World oil production is less than half of today's levels
4.) Human population peaks
1.) World coal production peaks
6.) Air travel drops to below 10% of today's levels
5.) More than half of Americans live in self-sufficient small towns or on farms

[vtsnowedin]

8.) Year 2014
2.) Oil goes above $200/barrel)
4.) Human population peaks
6.) Air travel drops to below 10% of today's levels
7.) World oil production is less than half of today's levels
9.)Year 2019
1.) World coal production peaks
10.) Year 2029
5.) More than half of Americans live in self-sufficient small towns or on farms
3.) Arctic Ocean is ice-free in summer

[Dukkha]

I like reading this forum - from time to time - but this thread highlights just what's wrong with it. Take the first item on the list: The peak in coal extraction. Predicting this is a fearsomely complicated business. I've no idea when it's going to happen and I suspect that most of those who answer have no better idea than I have, yet answers are happily thrown out without any justification at all. If you're interested in carrying out some kind of sociological investigation into doomerism, then I guess it's a reasonable question but otherwise, I have no idea what the value of this kind of idle, groundless speculation is.

[vtsnowedin]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Dukkha', 'I') like reading this forum - from time to time - but this thread highlights just what's wrong with it. Take the first item on the list: The peak in coal extraction. Predicting this is a fearsomely complicated business. I've no idea when it's going to happen and I suspect that most of those who answer have no better idea than I have, yet answers are happily thrown out without any justification at all. If you're interested in carrying out some kind of sociological investigation into doomerism, then I guess it's a reasonable question but otherwise, I have no idea what the value of this kind of idle, groundless speculation is.

[Schmuto]

2.) Oil goes above $200/barrel
8.) Year 2014
9.) Year 2019
7.) World oil production is less than half of today's levels
4.) Human population peaks
6.) Air travel drops to below 10% of today's levels
1.) World coal production peaks
10.) Year 2029

Never (America will be kaput before this happens) . . .
5.) More than half of Americans live in self-sufficient small towns or on farms

and who cares . . .
3.) Arctic Ocean is ice-free in summer

I'm fairly comfortable with the order.

[Ferretlover]

Seeker, why do you assume that only one situation will happen at a time, or that things will occur in any particular order?

[bodigami]

2.) Oil goes above $200/barrel

6.) Air travel drops to below 10% of today's levels

3.) Arctic Ocean is ice-free in summer

8.) Year 2014

4.) Human population peaks

9.) Year 2019

10.) Year 2029

1.) World coal production peaks

7.) World oil production is less than half of today's levels

5.) More than half of Americans live in self-sufficient small towns or on farms

[bodigami]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('pstarr', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Dukkha', 'I') like reading this forum - from time to time - but this thread highlights just what's wrong with it. Take the first item on the list: The peak in coal extraction. Predicting this is a fearsomely complicated business. I've no idea when it's going to happen and I suspect that most of those who answer have no better idea than I have, yet answers are happily thrown out without any justification at all. If you're interested in carrying out some kind of sociological investigation into doomerism, then I guess it's a reasonable question but otherwise, I have no idea what the value of this kind of idle, groundless speculation is.

[VMarcHart]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('TheSeeker', 'R')ank these events in order of when they'll happen, from first to last:

[VMarcHart]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Dukkha', '.')..answers are happily thrown out without any justification at all.