Lore wrote:Peak oil is not about the complete loss of fossil fuels. We will have oil and its derivatives for many years to come. It's about the cost of cheap abundant energy.
Also, peak oil is a threat, but it's just one of many right now that are converging as overpopulation stresses earth's natural resources and the environment.
The one thing about oil is that we have alternatives. Not replacements, but energy we can use in combination with the old sources to get us to a new level of sustainability.
I believe picking any single threat is an incomplete scenario as to how industrial civilization will collapse. Usually, societies fold with a series of body blows.
So you don't think it will be one factor causing the problems but a set of factors? Okay so what are your top five threats to modern civilization?