What skills do you have for a post-oil world?

Question

They always ask this question in a weekend supplement of a newspaper which has slipped my mind at the mo, but I thought I'd pose it here.
When we've depleted our natural resources, what will you do? How will you survive?

Ok, hypothetically.

Answer 1

I can grow vegetables and raise animals(my family keeps small farm, just for us), I have actually experience in cutting wood( bad one, but still experience), know how to spin (my Granny taught me that) and knitting, recently mastered the warmth-preserving skills. I know some crafts too, so I can manage even to trade. And the best- I know hundreds of fairy tales, so I might be able to get certain position in the community.

Answer 2

I have a good brain and a fairly healthy body but I will probably be much fitter as I will be doing more physically demanding labour and be walking everywhere. I am not sure what skills I have now that would be useful but I guess I will have to learn new ones. I not worried, humans survived before oil and we will survive after it. We are nothing if not adaptable that is why we are the dominant species on this planet.

Answer 3

I'll be long gone dead by the time the oil runs out. Science will have come up with a new source of energy if the scientists don't waste all their time and money chasing frauds like global warming or climate change or whatever the enviroclowns call it this week.

Answer 4

I think this is such a good question we all need to be thinking about, because one day by whatever means it happens we're all going to have to live in a much more primative world.

I think most of us will die. I think I'll certainly die, because you'll need to be strong, fit, and young to manage to fend for yourself, and that's not me anymore. The world will certainly be extremely different and 99% of people have no clue at all about how changed our human world is going to be.

The natural disasters and trials of recent years have been a 'warm up' for us to practice surviving, but I think it'll be a lot worse when we have no fuel/power at all in the future.

Answer 5

I'm looking forward to razzing round a post apocalyptic wasteland in a battered old jeep (don't ask how it runs) with a shotgun and a disfigured idiot dwarf sidekick solving problems and getting into fights with mutants. I've played lots of computer games and watched lots of films so I expect I'll be fine.
Actually I'll probably just die in a food riot or of a tumor like most people.

Answer 6

I don't have any. It will be hard. It will be interesting. I won't live to see it, but my children may. This free wheeling, car based lifestyle we are living will have to end. People will have to live closer to work. There will be more telecommuting. Everything will cost more because cheap transportation has made everything cheap. Just imagine how much bricks would cost if there were no trucks to deliver them. How much would YOU charge someone to carry their bricks to the construction site by hand? A lot I bet.

Answer 7

You need to check more deeply into mother nature as she is recycling our air with plants. The plants as they give us the O2 keeps the C and that is the beginning of hers recycling of the fossil fuels. If we don't through all of the lawn clippings in the dump ,the right process will recycle the fossil fuels and we will never run out.

Answer 8

Good question....however we humans are ever resourceful souls and when needs must we can turn our hands to anything. And never forget that necessity is the mother of all invention.

Answer 9

It's not going to happen in my life time so I don't even think about it. I have more important things to worry about, like how to stop socialist and liberal politicians from putting the government in control of every aspect of my life and stripping me of my individual freedoms and choices.

Answer 10

I wont be moving much by the time this happens