Humanity always adapts to challenges. We wil just adapt to this, right?
Absolutely. Just most of us [90% or so] won’t be here.
According to this site, (http://www.lifeaftertheoilcrash.net/), finding paying work is the least of my problems.
The premise of this is that oil production is a bell curve and we just passed the peak, meaning there will never again be as much oil-derived energy as there just was. More and more of us, less and less of the energy that makes modern technological life possible.
Yeah, it sounds way too extreme to be believable, but I’m not sure the facts of the matter would be on the nightly news: paranoid, but not without reason, perhaps.
I can believe most of what he says about the crippling effects of an oil shortage: we are dependent on oil for more than just gasoline, after all. I don’t know if most people realize how well the food chain is greased with petrochemicals.
I do have some problems with the precipitous drop-off in resources and the resulting die-off (going from 6 billion to 500 million is a big drop): by his own admission, he’s a 25 year old recent law school grad, not a geologist or in some other field that would suggest a grasp of the science and engineering that would back up this theory.
File this under “one more inchoate fear vector.”