DesuMaiden wrote:I believe that I'm unfortunate to be born at the end of the age of oil. If I was born in 1930, I would probably be dead before the Malthusian catastrophe truly strikes.
I think the best age to born in would be 1930 because that was when the age of oil really took off. That was when the greatest benefits of oil were developed and reaped. Someone born in 1930 would be dead before the massive global economic collapse and starvation/famines from peak oil strike.
I was born in the worst period in history. I was born in 1990. I was born near the end of the age of oil, which is a very short era in human history. I will grow up in a time when oil resources become scarcer and scarcer. I was born in a time when a catastrophe of unimaginable proportions is about to unfold. I will be alive and well when the greatest catastrophe in mankind's history is about to happen. I am going to be alive when the greatest famine on earth will arrive. I will be alive when the greatest dying of human beings is about to arrive.
I only wished I was born in the 1930s because I wouldn't be alive anymore when the greatest catastrophe in human history strikes. But I will only be in my 30s or 40s when the greatest catastrophe in human history arrives. I will have to suffer the full blow of the greatest catastrophe ever in the prime of my life.
For kids born today, they will even be more unfortunate. They are going to live straight through the worst era of human history. Kids born today might not even ever be well-feed and educated as society totally collapses around them as they grow up.
I guess I was lucky enough to reap the benefits of the age of oil before all of the oil was sucked up. I guess I was lucky enough to enjoy the wonders of fossil fuel energy before it was used up. But I believe my children will not enjoy the same benefits of fossil fuel energy as they grow up. My children may have to grow up in a terrible and chaotic world full of anarchy, unrest, war, famine, starvation, disease and death.
The end of the age of oil is basically the beginning of a Malthusian catastrophe. The end of the age of oil is basically the beginning of a new dark age. I believe a new civilization will emerge from the ashes of our civilization, but that's only after billions of people die from this planet.
Anyways, that's all I got to say. Good night my friends.
When I have ordered chinese takeaway once week a week as an examp, I collect my thoughts on the won ton soup and polystyrie it was poured into. That shit isn't degrading for years, decades, once in the trash. I'm essentially enjoying a comfort generations from now won't ever have. How selfish.
None of us chose to be born in the era we are born in, people like you and me had thousands of nukes on the planet. I think back to that chaotic era, what a cess pool of filth!
Enjoy a pizza from Pizza hut once in a while. I guess if you don't like that, make you're own.