Peak Oil, Peak Food…. Peak Everything

9 Comments on "Peak Oil, Peak Food…. Peak Everything"

BillT on Wed, 5th Dec 2012 1:23 am 



Yep! We have peaked.
Peak Debt.
Peak Climate Change
Peak Population
Peak energy
Peak Greed
Peak …..

ken nohe on Wed, 5th Dec 2012 1:29 am 



Peak everything is an unavoidable consequence of exponentials but peak does not mean end. Stoneage people never met “peak stone” but the middle age did have a “peak wood” in Europe when the forest were razed and had to be replanted.

Likewise peak oil or peak food do not need to be followed by a cliff but some preparation would be helpful. What is clear is that right now all the countries are moving towards gas by default. There is plenty of gas until of course exponentials catch up. (With 50% of growth per year, 10 years before peak lilies, the water lilies occupy only 0.1% of the pond!)

Kenz300 on Wed, 5th Dec 2012 1:33 am 



Population has not Peaked and continues to grow.

Too many people and too few resources.

Every problem is harder to solve with the worlds ever growing population.

sparky on Wed, 5th Dec 2012 6:11 am 



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@ ken nohe
“peak wood was a real crisis
since only charcoal was suitable for smelting iron and steel , royal edicts protected gun casting from shortage
the poor used “sea coal” picked on the north of England beaches .
It was an atrocious fuel with plenty of sulfur
Abraham Darby had the idea of using coal cooked to remove the impurities
this coke was used by brewers instead of the very expensive charcoal to filter their beer
when Abraham Darby fired his newly lined furnace with coke he started the industrial revolution .
the old furnace produced iron for all the early industrial structures

it was the womb of the carbon age

ken Nohe on Wed, 5th Dec 2012 12:53 pm 



Yes I know of course; my great, great, great, great grand-parents were making charcoal in the forest and that was just before the “earth” coal revolution. 20 years ago, I was amazed to discover the first high furnaces ever built in Wales and, surprisingly just before the industrial revolution.

This said, there is in fact another way to look at all these “peaks”: what if they are just “turns” in our evolution? It may well be that our future may move towards “virtual” faster than we realize and that consequently our energy consumption may dwindle suddenly… at least per habitant. This does not solve the population explosion. We will need another revolution for that. But it will come, no doubt. It may be painful but it will. Eventually, to survive we will have to obey the laws of nature.

It is very likely that whatever remains of our society in 2112 will be almost as different from our time than we are from the early XVIII Century. They were still burning witches then! Just 300 years ago.

keith on Wed, 5th Dec 2012 1:58 pm 



Peak fish is a problem now.

Newfie on Wed, 5th Dec 2012 4:48 pm 



But… Stupidity will never peak. Only two things are infinite – the Universe and human stupidity.

Kenz300 on Wed, 5th Dec 2012 6:34 pm 



The ever growing population continues to put more and more pressure on the worlds finite resources. 80 million more people are added to the worlds population every year……. this is not sustainable. The worlds poor are having the most children and wondering why they can not get out of poverty.

GregT on Thu, 6th Dec 2012 5:34 am 



A couple of more summers like last year should pretty much do it for peak food.

Peak food will take of care of the population problem.