MonteQuest wrote:We will have to cope and adapt....and learn some hard lessons about sustainabilty and the earth's carrying capacity.
You give people too much credit. We already know the lesson. We've just decided that we don't care, and that the eventual costs are acceptable.
Why should Joe Schmoe care if some peasant can't purchase nitrogen fertilizer made from NG, ten years from now. Joe likes heating his home to a toasty 72F when its below freezing outside.
The hard part in all this for us, will be watching countries that can't produce internally... They have no moderating buffer between them and a catastrophic depopulation event; when push comes to shove, the US will be producing oil and gas long past the point that most countries are going to go belly up.
Do we get to keep driving cars and SUV's for convenience.. no. Will we, in the US, starve? no. Will we have the courage to shut down immigration and shoot people that try to enter? I don't know. I wonder if more states might adopt Texan law in response.