DesuMaiden wrote: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.
Alfred Tennyson wrote:We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
JuanP wrote:Desu, I mostly agree with you. The younger a person is in today's world, the more fucked up your prospects are. Older people like to deny this, particularly older people with children and grandkids, but it is true. Don't listen to the people that tell you to have children anyway. I am 45 years old, and had a Vasectomy and no children because my children would have been around your age. I understood more than 30 years ago how fucked up the world would be today. Do not take advice on how to live your life from people that didn't see it coming.
You should consider getting a Vasectomy and living childfree like I am doing.
I know, I know you probably scream and cry
That your little world won't let you go
But who in your measly little world
Are you trying to prove that
You're made out of gold and, eh, can't be sold
GHung wrote:Desu, where's your sense of adventure? When I was 16 in the mid 70's I sensed that our civilization was already on the down-slope, at least with things that mattered. I quit highschool and became a hobo; rode freight trains around the country, saw things most people never will, and met folks way outside of my socio-economic circles who I never would have met. One of the greatest learning experiences of my life.
Get out of your comfort zone and live your life, eyes and ears open; mouth shut. Go shovel shit somewhere and establish a base of understanding that will be more useful than any higher education. You'll be surprised where it may lead you.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RK8N6DjJccc
Oh, to be young again.
DesuMaiden wrote: I think the best age to born in would be 1930 because that was when the age of oil really took off.
AgentR11 wrote:I have a completely different outlook on this thing. To me, it seems like this is the greatest moment to live or be born at. Not so much for comfort or pleasure, but a moment in the history of the species where real things change, when existential results happen. For instance, by actuarial table, I should die somewhere around 2050; pretty much all climate models indicate that by 2050, the if, how, and how strongly questions will be blatantly obvious to everyone. I will have seen the entire period of rising concern moving to fundamental knowledge on this issue for life on Earth. My daughter, by the same standard could live till about 2080-2090; and she'll have played whatever role she saw fit to, during the approach to the bottleneck, and her children, should she have any, (or theirs) could very easily be the ones to boldly contest the bottleneck for good or ill.
Luxuriously pleasurable? Not a chance.
Substantive? Absolutely.
Interesting? Certainly.
I would say... fortunate.
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