Yoshua wrote:The evolution of human civilization has been driven by energy and technology ever since the day we humans learned how to master fire (energy) and make tools (technology).
No one has claimed we aren't clever monkeys.
Yoshua wrote:Unless we find a new energy source our civilization has now peaked.
Sure...fire...stone age...bronze...iron...steel...industrialization....the only known solution for a doomer to the end of one age is the end of man. Except when it isn't. Lack of imagination on the part of doomers isn't the issue.
Yoshua wrote:Scraping up what's left at the bottom of the oil barrel is not a solution... it's desperation.
Exactly what could have been said in early 1901...as we were busily scraping the bottom of the oil barrel...until we came up with another new technology, and suddenly it turns out that the "less easy" oil worked fine as well. We've done that routine 3 or 5 times now. What part of your vast understanding of the development of oil and natural gas tells you that the next 2 aren't already visible? We know for a fact that people right here on this website knew about the US resource plays before they created Saudi America, what part of your experience in resource development says that the next 2 visible ones aren't waiting for the right economics to do the same thing we did just since this website was invented?