| kirby007 said: ...in the bigger picture of whats going to kill us. Forget about the financial crisis and the uncertain economic market. There is a bigger problem on the horizon its called Peak Oil. In short a slowdown in the supply of oil production and the depopulation of the world's population will follow shortly after. 1kJ of Food Production requires 8kJ of energy to produce. Most of the energy is given off as heat in the production of food. Source of most energy is oil. No real alternative to oil. Oil prices are rising because the oil supply has reached its peak. A slowdown due to less oil in the food production will starve the population and the food prices will go up even further. The starvation and freezing of the population will occur eventually and over time the population will go down and those left behind will end up in ww3 over the remaing foodsupplies. Do you see this scenario happening? |
Like everything else we will get our food from China where they are smart enough to aggressively invest in renewable energy. For them, it is obviously necessary because the sheer size of their population simply demands a solution not tied to fossil fuels.
This is why I supported the idea of a Green New Deal. Besides simply climate reasons, the energy markets of the future will put our current ones out of business (as they should) but if we aren't their to capitalize on the new market we will be losing another industry to China.
We have to be at the forefront of this tech. Emerging countries will rely on this tech and right now it looks like China will become the new OPEC
