Modern society will have a difficult time dealing with it.
Yeah, I believe the worlds population is projected to be reduced to 2.2bn, that's a difficult time!
I appreciate what you are saying but I have to agree with intrigue. If people and espically governments prepare for the coming crisis then yes, I
imagine there will be in a sense, a smooth (ish) transition from the petroleum age to something else, what that else will be, nobody knows! Well I
don't anyway.
However, at the moment this is not happening, people are not aware of 'peak-oil' - they simply don't care because it hasen't happened yet. There
are elections in the UK at the moment, no parties have addressed 'peak-oil' in their manifesto, the Green parties' solution for the energy crisis /
global warming is to phase out nuclear power - they don't have a clue and they are representing the environmentally aware. We are currently widening
motorways, enlarging airports, spending millions of pounds on frankly, absolute rubbish - when we hit the threshold and we will, we won't be able to
fuel any planes or cars. Instead the government (UK) should be planning ahead, environment should top of the agenda, we should be researching more
efficient combustion engines, improving public transport, raising road tax, etc. It's not happening at the moment and it never will happen, this is
why we will be utterly screwed!
Lastly, the contention that 'peak-oil' stems from NWO is ridiculus - the links are tenuous at best but I guess it's fun trying to link it all
together with some conspiracy rubbish. I do however, believe that there is a selfish interest by certain players in the petroluem industry to profit
out of the forthcoming crisis and for obvious reasons, oil companies won't declare a crisis as their stocks will plummet. There are tonnes of
political implications tied with peak-oil, I reckon if you think about them logically you'll come to an answer that doesn't involve NWO, and
sinister cigarette smoking men