[DesuMaiden]

This is a video I made to address all of the peak oil deniers out there.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSVHbYx9fAs

[dashster]

I wouldn't say some people. I would say most people, or rather, just about everybody. That is if you define Peak Oil as oil production peaking at a point in time at which we won't be prepared for it.

[DesuMaiden]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('dashster', 'I') wouldn't say some people. I would say most people, or rather, just about everybody. That is if you define Peak Oil as oil production peaking at a point in time at which we won't be prepared for it.

[ralfy]

Very likely what will cause collapse is combinations of problems, i.e., peak oil and generally shortages for various resources (especially given the presence of JIT systems and only a few weeks' worth of necessities available in various towns and cities, including food, medicine, fuel, and even ammo), significant availability of armaments (including small arms), military forces itching to attack weak civilian populations, governments resorting to martial rule to control populations, polluted water and environmental damage, droughts, floods, and other natural disasters leading to crop destruction, etc., coupled with large populations, most who aren't prepared and who think that something or someone will save them immediately, effects of the spread of various diseases amplified by austerity measures, the breakdown of sanitation and health care, and so on.

It gets worse if industrial civilization is strongly linked to global capitalism, which in turn requires continuous economic growth made possible through more sales of goods and services to expanding markets.

[DesuMaiden]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('ralfy', 'V')ery likely what will cause collapse is combinations of problems, i.e., peak oil and generally shortages for various resources (especially given the presence of JIT systems and only a few weeks' worth of necessities available in various towns and cities, including food, medicine, fuel, and even ammo), significant availability of armaments (including small arms), military forces itching to attack weak civilian populations, governments resorting to martial rule to control populations, polluted water and environmental damage, droughts, floods, and other natural disasters leading to crop destruction, etc., coupled with large populations, most who aren't prepared and who think that something or someone will save them immediately, effects of the spread of various diseases amplified by austerity measures, the breakdown of sanitation and health care, and so on.