Imagine the world pop as a bacterial colony in a petri dish.....?

Question

....the pop swells to the carry capacity of the petri dish....then more nutrients are introduced and the pop swells to 4x that size, then the outside nutrients are removed. What happens to the population? In our case, the extra nutrient is oil and how we can use it. As the oil is withdrawn (imminent declining oil supplies), what happens to our population? Famine is a natural response to declining food supplies and we are about there. Pop quiz ***hole, what do you do, now?

a bush fam member - you don't read much do ya?

ruth - this is the most important political question of our time.....who will lead, how will we orangnize ourselves in order to get through the fast approaching times a great difficulty as a our lifestyle becomes more and more impossible.

ruth - this is the most important political question of our time.....who will lead, how will we orangnize ourselves in order to get through the fast approaching times of great difficulty as a our lifestyle becomes more and more impossible.

Answer 1

Things aren't so dire. This isn't some Sci-Fi, doomsday movie.

Here's an analogy. In Chicago, they spread salt on all the roads during icy period in Winter. That salt slowly destroys not only the roads, but the cars as well, in addition to killing many plants when runoff occurs.

There is an alternative called calcium magnesium acetate, but it is more expensive. However, what would happen if they suddenly discontinued the use of salt? A lot of manufacturers would race to start producing the calcium magnesium acetate, and the price would plummet.

The same thing will happen when oil reserves start getting low. Wind, Solar, nuclear, clean coal, and other technologies will experience drastic cost cuts as their usage increases, just as DVD players dropped drastically in price once they were popularized.

By the way, a lot of people may want you to think that the world's oil reserves are dwindling, but every few years, a major new source of oil is discovered. In the Caspian sea, it has been estimated there is much more than in all of Saudi Arabia and perhaps all of the Middle East. New reserves have been found in Alaska, and in the Gulf of Mexico. There are huge, absolutely massive deposits of tar sand in Canada which have awesome potential. We're not running out.

Answer 2

Oil is not declining. Peak oil is a myth.

1) Canada is now known to have more oil than Saudi Arabia.
Canada was the number one exporter of oil to the U.S. last year.
http://www.eia.doe.gov/pub/oil_gas/petroleum/data_publications/company_level_imp

2) There is enough oil to last the U.S. for decades without importing a single drop. The problem is there are laws that block drilling off of shores on the West Coast and the Gulf of Mexico.

3) The U.S. has a trillion barrels of oil in shale rock in the U.S.. Countries around the world are now starting to use shale extraction. (China, Brazil, etc.)

Answer 3

How about at least ask a political question.

Your "question" assumes way too many facts not in evidence.

Nah, it is fear-mongering without basis or solution. The US has a form of government which works just fine, an economic structure which works just fine, and a survival mentality borne by rugged individualism which works just fine.

If you want to posit some pseudo-scientific end-times scenerio, at least have the honesty to admit that Liberalism creates dependency, not survival.

Answer 4

Did you skip some medication?