Page added on August 6, 2006
In each of these last years before oil production inevitably drops, we are using more oil (and coal, natural gas and other forms of energy) than humanity has ever used before. Over 80 million barrels per day (mbd). More oil in 2006 than the total amount the world used before 1960. Each year.
Each year of record production and use of energy – ….2004, 2005, 2006, ….to somewhere near a 92-94 mbd peak in around 2010 in Chris Skrebowski’s most informed prediction also helps to exponentially increase our scientific understanding of creation and our place within; helps to fuel the most fiction written; the most music written, preformed and recorded; the most plays or dance preformed; the most works of art and architecture painted, sculpted, conceived and executed; THE MOST REALITY TV SHOWS EVER and the most introspection of our human soul and place in creation ever attempted. Year after year with awesome intensity we race toward ever more complex understanding of what life is.
Like the best party ever, at the peak there are more people feverishly talking and dancing, swiving and praying, prancing and doing deals, eating and drinking, people watching and acting bored, whooping it up or paralyzed with fear, loving and grooming, hating and fighting, catering and cleaning up, puking and peeing, in ecstasy or in contemplation, in pleasure or in pain, more people more alive than ever before and maybe more people at a party than there will ever be again.
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