i've always dreamed about peak oil

pstarr

i've always wished for a world without humans. It's coming.
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albente · Light Sweet Crude Joined: Aug 20, 2004 Posts: 1338

rogerhb

Damn, I thought you were going to claim yourself as the "New Messiah".

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He's not the Messiah, he's a very naughty boy.

MicroHydro · Light Sweet Crude Joined: Apr 10, 2005 Posts: 1286

Humans will remain in the hundreds of millions. What will vanish is the 20th century world of cheap energy, abundant consumer goods, and cheap food.
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CeeCee

When I was a little kid I used to have a recurring nightmare about an enormous, enormous tyre (perhaps 4 stories high) that rolled and rumbled ominously over the horizon and into view, towards me, and then with a deafening roar it squashed - with utter destruction, precision and 'meaninglessness'- a beautiful, perfect little cottage with pretty and innocent flowers and a white picket fence.
I always woke up with such horror and desperation after that! I ran to Mum and she gave me a hot chocko, in the middle of the night, many times.
And I could never bring myself to have a home with a white picket fence, for that reason!!!
When I first heard about peak oil, I vividly remembered that dream- the tyre signifying oil and the automobile etc, and the cottage symbolising the western dream world, and the innocence within it.
So maybe it was a dream about peak oil.

wildsparrow

CeeCee

That was very perceptive for a young age. I didn't get that awareness until last year- I now see suburbs in terms of "where's the food"???? Where are the fruit trees, where are the gardens... ????" I grew up on a suburban culdesac in Canada- I remember it being a wonderful place to grow up, but I remember being glad we didn't live on a long straight road.

I went back to Canada for a visit in 1995 and couldn't believe that so many suburban homes don't have ordinary old-fashioned fireplaces. I'm not sure what they rely on for heating, but there was no provision for the good old 'manual back-up'. This time last year I wrote a letter to my friend in Canada and urged her to stock up on extra firewood. I felt a bit dopey doing it but found I couldn't not do it. She didn't mind, though.

So anyone reading this who lives in a suburban house in North America, or anywhere in the world for that matter, and who is facing a cold winter, without a fireplace- please get one installed (or a log burner) and stock up on firewood, just in case.

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felixdz · Tar Sands Joined: Aug 19, 2005 Posts: 20

A world without humans is pretty unlikely. As Stewart Brand pointed out. Humans are more like cockroaches than Polar Bears. We can live in a wide range of environmental niches not just one.

Mind you there will be a lot less of us.

Raxozanne

pstarr

I was a kid and I woke up in the night and looked out my window on a bright full moon. There was a beer can in the gutter across the street and the shiney end reflected the moon back in my window--like the sun. It was like a day without people.

I used to hide in the dark wood until my friends gave up looking for me.
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