Photos from Bangladesh...
Marching on a power plant:
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Smashing vehicles:
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Police used tear gas and batons to disperse the protesters:
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thor wrote:It is a strange phenomena, people getting violent when the power goes out.
AmericanEmpire wrote:Gee, I can hardly wait to see how spoiled Americans used to getting everything they want much less need act when we have power failures and gas shortages in the good ole USA.
Leanan wrote:...a killer heat wave...
Zardoz wrote:Leanan wrote:...a killer heat wave...
...in early May in northern India.
Hmmm. I know global warming is just a myth, because Steve Milloy says it is, but still...
Jack wrote:Well, power outages are supposed to be a symptom of peak oil, right?
This is where things get interesting. On the one hand, India is trying to transform itself from third-world to first-world; but the lack of power - of electrical infrastructure - along with increased energy prices result in strife and disruption. Might it be that India and other such nations will have their nascent economies aborted, resulting in a return to third-world status? If so, their domestic energy consumption and wages would decline.
It's possible that they would begin producing and exporting biofuels, with the net result that the first world would enjoy cheaper energy prices than would other be the case, and a slower crash than conventional peak oil theory might imply. The cost, of course, would be born by the folks in India, who would - in essence - be living a hardscrabble existence in order to subsidize the West. That might also precipitate a dieoff in India, with desperation driving wages there still lower.
That would be quite the turn of events!
Sleepybag wrote:India is a very crowded country. Its size is 3,3 million square kilometers (slightly more than one third of the USA). It's population is about 1.1 billion (almost four times the USA population), resulting in a country with about 333 people per square kilometer. (USA 30 pp/km2)
That is the same population density as Belgium or The Netherlands, but on a very large scale. Rwanda has a similar population density, and Bangladesh has about 1000 people per square kilometer.
When there is a country where things could get nasty in the future, I would pick a crowded, hot and poor country.
source:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_population_density
Leanan wrote:They already have a law banning the use of food oil as biofuel. You can only make biofuel from non-food products.
venky wrote:Jack, I think you are a horrible person and I hope bad things happen to you.
What's the reasoning behind this? I don't see it.
Leanan wrote:India doesn't want the poor to starve so the wealthy can drive cars.
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