[skyemoor]

Peak Oil chat at Washington post with Brian Hicks and Chris Nelder, authors of "Profit From the Peak: The End of Oil and the Greatest Investment Event of the Century" happening right now.


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[skyemoor]

My question: Given the Hirsch Report, "Twilight in the Desert," Sadad al-Huseini, etc., what scenarios do you forecast (deep recession, depression, collapse) and for how long? What human settlement patterns, agricultural methods and technological shifts do you expect will bring us out of the morass?

Chris Nelder: Unfortunately it would take about another whole book to answer that question! My guess is that we will experience about a 30- or 40-year global recession, as we try to fill the gap of declining fossil fuels. Over that time, I expect a renaissance in subsistence farming and self-sufficiency. But I don't think anybody could say, certainly not me, whether the 22nd Century will look more like an advanced eco-topia, or more like the 17th Century...