eastbay wrote:We've long known that at some point governments must prepare for Our Common Disaster.
Carlhole wrote:I subscribe to a more scientific view of the world and cosmos.
fiedag wrote:Ibon, if you are intending to publish an English version, I am willing to assist.
Pops wrote:Rapier has a translation.
They suggest that it has become urgent to understand those consequences of an eventual peak now in order to have enough time to adapt.
Oakley wrote:If we are at peak, then production will decline at some rate. A rate of decline of 5%, for example, would cut production in half in 14 years, just the opposite from a rate of growth of 5% that would double production in 14 years. (Remember Prof. Albert Bartlett and his lecture on rates of growth.)
It is hard for me to imagine the destruction that a halving of the amount of oil available would bring. Half of the tractors running, half of the trucks delivering, half of the equipment strip mining coal, half of the trains delivering bulk cargo, half of the ships at sea, half of the plastics, half of the oil related drugs, half of the gasoline for personal and employment travel.
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