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  • Someday, all the old socialists will have died out. There will be no more central planner wannabes. What a great world that will be.

  • All this talk is assuming that fossil fules are the only source of energy. We will run out and then what? I think we will find new sources of energy like cold fusion to replace fossil fuels.

    I like the quote "you can't let others do the thinking for us."

  • So what does this tell us,.........we are all screwed, so start living!

  • @torium30 it tells us that there will be a big-ass war and that all hell will break loose

  • Use the ethanol from the Monsanto GMO supply, cause Im not eating that garbage.

  • The economist from MIT is correct. This guy keeps making fallacies and applying math incorrectly.

  • soo...does anyone know when this lecture was filmed? seems a bit old. just wondering

  • @ThyrmBloodaxe 1999-2000

  • @ThyrmBloodaxe AT LEAT 10 YEARS AGO!

  • Where can i find accurate current data i searched Google i couldn't find any?

  • fusion is the answer

  • I'm guessing we're hanging around 11:50, bacteria in a bottle. What was that movie where they cut a bastard lose to wander in the desert with just a can of oil? modern agriculture. world without end is a catholic prayer by the way. youtube rocks. don't forget to download.

  • @zssamgh All things considered I think we're closer to 11:59 tbh.

  • youtube comments are beyond retarded.There are some very valid points made in this series,especially these suppirted by simple math and past experiences.Whats not being taken into account is other energy sources. thats just no the topic.looks like many nations will see no other choice than going nuclear (wich only shifts the probmel into the future for a few more "minutes" while increasing risks for desasters),while a few nations can rely idely on renewable energy. Craig venter has solutions too

  • Thank you for simplifying what so many have worked so hard to complicate.  I spent days watching your videos and double checking the math (just to be sure). Thank you so much for your contribution to the wake-up call humanity so desperately needs. You can argue with a politician but you cannot argue with arithmetic. Well Done Dr. B

  • Jesus, this guy is quoting OIL company stats. He's wrong. PERIOD.

  • You can tell they're really scraping the bottom of the barrel these days.

  • 8:03 "We cannot let others do our thinking for us." Pretty valid lesson there Doc..

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  • guys like this should be running the country, instead of the calculating greedy idiots that have and are........

  • looking at the current economy

    looking at current gas prices

    looking at this video

    damn... the old man has a valid argument...

  • The statement in the video on 3:51 pretty much made my jaw drop to the floor. Ignorance of the problem was on the left list right?

  • We only have 2 things that are not in short supply; water and the sun. The only technology that comes to mind is hydrolysis. Hydrolysis powered by solar, wind, geothermal, hydroelectric and nuclear seems to be what we should be pushing for. By the way, I am almost done with my chemical engineering degree and I am really interested in hydrogen fuel cell development. I hope to contribute something meaningful towards the solution. I hope some of you college bound people consider engineering majors.

  • @mumbles005 Water and sun doesnt make the corporations money,get politicians elected,create wars to profit from....so i dont see a future for your work....

  • 3:05 TERRORIST!

  • HEMP SHOULD REPLACE ALL THESE BYPRODUCTS OF GREED AND EVIL. EDUCATE, LEARN, LOVE, FREE YOUR MIND AND KEEP IT, OR IT WILL BE LOST.

  • everybody on the planet who has a brain should watch this collection of videos and seriously think about what they want to get out of life

  • @64jamiewhitehouse Extremely well said.

  • Well take the case of Denmark. Going for a cut of use of fossil fuels with 40 % in 2020 and complete shift to GREEN energy in 2050. The Sun gives infinite energy. I hope the rest of the world will follow this example and not use the remaining fossil fuels in the underground as this will ruin our environment. Time is for more responsability also for individuals. Energy consumption from individuals should be lowered in the same proces where energy consumption changes to green energy.

  • That is a weird as hell definition of “modern argiculture”. Sorry, but I call bullshit on that. It’s the transformation of SUNLIGHT into food. Or energy into another energy. As is everything ever done in all of the universe forever.

  • @Evi1M4chine: You're referring to historic agriculture, natural agriculture, alternative agriculture, future agriculture(hopefully), but not modern mainstream commercial agriculture as we know it today, which depends on truckloads of petroleum-based products put into the soil and onto the plants, to "make food".

  • Peak oil was and is a fraud ,by the left

  • @Viktorsiable So you really think that oil is limitless?

  • @Viktorsiable Peak oil is a fraud? Behave yourself.

  • @Viktorsiable

    There is no "left" or "right" way of analyzing data and ARRIVING at decisions. Politics & ideologies are an outdated method for solving problems. The technical methods of science are the tools we use now. So, please...if you'd like to contribute something: show us a non-opinionated basis for your statements.

  • @blizteria what?

  • Don't call ethanol a loser!!! you'l hurt its feelings :(

  • @lonogugeadult You think this is funny? You thinks its a big joke?

    Fuck you!

    You are months away from going to a supermarket with a wheelbarrow full of money just to buy a loaf of bread!

  • @Beef1188 What does that have to do with what I said?

  • @lonogugeadult Off topic! Go away!

  • @Beef1188 ZABOOMAFOOO!

  • @Beef1188 , nice Depression example.

  • @lonogugeadult don't tell me it will get volatile :P

  • There is a REALLY important point that the good professor is missing and not talking about and that is that the right side of hubbart's curve is MUCH more costly and has a substantially lower energy return on energy invested. Whereas on the way up the curve, oil is coming out under it's own pressure whereas after peak, it has to be laboriously pumped out. Therefor we get less NET energy from the second as we did from the first half. This is ESSENTIAL to oil production conversation.

  • @christo930 And that is just an individual well. Whereas early oil discoveries were the highest quality, at the shallowest depth and the cheapest to produce, the later oil discoveries are under miles of water and miles more of rock. Where a 100 foot tower was sufficient to reach the early oil, we now have oil wells larger than a skyscraper that is floating on the water! You simply can not compare the early oil to the later oil. As easy as the first well was is as hard as the last one will be.

  • @christo930 im have no idea if that is nonsense what im talking about (for i have no knowledge about power consumption of oil drilling operations), but isnt that amount of additional needed energy covered by more sophisticated generators with higher thermal efficiency? (again, this is a shot in the dark. but i'd like to learn a few things, if you have the knowledge)

  • @CalderaXII When an oilfield is first tapped, it is under high pressure and comes up out of the ground on it's own pressure. But, as more and more of the oil comes up that pressure drops and wells are pressurized with steam or compressed co2 or laboriously pumped by electric powered pumps. Also the water cut goes up (meaning there is more water in the oil) as the well is produced. Check out this /watch?v=cwNgNyiXPLk&

    What we are discussing starts at about the 1:20 mark.

  • @christo930 thanks mate :)

  • @CalderaXII No prob, hope the linked video was helpful.

  • @christo930 I don't really understand what you mean and why it is essential in this conversation. Could you please elaborate? Know I am a complete outsider to both arithmetics and oil production

  • @shaquedemuzz I don't know which comment I made that you are replying to, but I will assume it is the one with 19 up votes. An oil field is not an underground cave filled with oil, the oil is actually in the pores of the rocks and is under pressure. As the oil is produced, there is less and less pressure in the reservoir. So at first, oil comes out under it's own pressure, but over time, the pressure drops and you have inject CO2 or water or use pumps to produce the rest of the recoverable oil

  • @christo930 (cont) Also, the lighter liquids tend to come up first, and that lighter oil is of better quality. So what is left is a heavier oil, usually mixed with brine. If you plotted out the production of an oilfield, it would look something like this /\. The left half is usually heavier, more costly to get out of the ground, takes much more energy to get out of the ground and needs more refining. Over time a field gets more and more expensive to produce. I hope that answers it.

  • @christo930 That actually should say "the right half"

  • @christo930 ORLY?

    You haven't gotten the point of this lecture.

  • @nellux If you think that, you have completely missed the point of my comment.

  • When the oil becomes too much, we'll starve. Or eat each other and then starve later.

    If I recall the 2008 oil spike was accompanied with a food crisis. Whilst its entirely possible to merely be a causality fallacy on my part it can make you think.

  • Some of us have already solved the oil issue,not the energy issue,but a machine that can run with out oil,with no lubrication,but many of us believe that the oil companys have a strangle hold on the patent office,its one of the reasons why i hate Capitalism,im sorry,but thats just the way i feel.

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  • what this great video tells me is that we need to stop the growth-mania

  • Yeah. we're coasting downhill when it comes to oil!

  • 8:06 hes quoting Socrates.....

  • Boring... Makes you not want to have kids ;)

  • .AGREE...WITH FACTS...I have to think over it...

    

  • 3:29 The peak of world production of oil would occur before 2010.

    It came true, it was 2009!

  • Lets not forget that ethanol is currently produced by corn and corn strips the nutrients from the ground than almost any other crop.

  • Why in the world is some guy taking a picture of himself everyday a related video? Sometimes youtube confuses me....

  • OK, it's ten years later. Anyone want to do the update?

  • @mdiem The world hasn't ended yet.

  • The DATA is false. Try searching YouTube for "Climategat 2-US Government Involved in Data Manipulation" and you'll get the 'run down' on it!

  • @TheHeurist

    I watched "Climategat 2-US Government Involved in Data Manipulation" and it is accurate. However, I don't see how it makes the data from this video--which was collected by completely different individuals who are in a completely different field (Geology)--false. None of this video makes any reference to global warming as "Climategat 2-US Government Involved in Data Manipulation" does. Instead, it is referencing population growth and potential energy deficiencies.

  • @TheHeurist

    So I do admit that there have been climatologists who have produced inaccurate and biased data. However, there have been very very few of them. Most statistics we see put up on news stations are very subjective and lack a scientific method in data collection.

    There is a consensus among the scientific community that "climate change" is occurring. These scientists do not, on the other hand, know what the result of climate change will be...

  • @TheHeurist

    So the choice is clear TheHeurist... Are you going to reject the majority of scientific conclusions in favor of what our obviously subjective news outlets tell you?  Or are you going to believe the scientists who created many of the luxuries you enjoy today--including your automobiles, planes and power plants?

    All I ask is that you don't give in to the dualities--such either completely accepting all information in regard to climate change or completely dismissing it.

  • @TheHeurist

    All I ask is that you don't simply accept the conclusions or data from this video or that video. Do your research. Most of my knowledge regarding climate change is that there are very few reported incidences of data manipulation--although they do exist.

    The more you do your research and gain knowledge, the more you will realize how little you know. Most climatologists admit that they don't know exactly what climate change will do or how rapidly changes will occur.

  • @contactbrewer - How do you know I haven't done this? Look, it doesn't matter anyway. Just put this term into your browser and see for yourself. The search should be done on YouTube so that you will find the video.

    "Global Warming And the Carbon Tax Scam". That will clear up a few issues.

  • @TheHeurist

    Hey, thanks for showing me that video. It was very eye-opening. My reaction to your first video was based on the fact that many people use that one instance as a way to dismiss the notion of a scientific consensus.

  • The "Global Warming And the Carbon Tax Scam" video is absolutely right about there being a whole industry which has been created out of the climate change debate. The industry itself, including the "green movement," has become very distorted and often doesn't lead by example.

    The weird part is, the video you suggested uses the IPCC as an example of an organization which is not strictly composed of scientists.

  • This is very interesting. I didn't know about this and much of my research on climate change doesn't seem to emphasize one scientific organization or journal. Instead, I see all of the evidence presented, and there is a clear consensus to be seen. Scientists are the last people on earth to make a plan to lie about something. Politicians and corporations are the first to do so.

  • The idea that these profit interests are trying to make the world panic about oil and other CO2 releasing fuels to support the climate change industry is not very well supported. I'd love to see more evidence though. I'm always open to new information.

  • @contactbrewer he gave enough evidence bro. more evidence than what we need

  • @frank12364 I'm not sure if you understood my comment. I agree that the professor in this video gave more than enough evidence. I was replying to TheHeurist who claims that this video, "The Most IMPORTANT Video You'll Ever See," is, in one way or another, the produce of a propaganda campaign to create the "green" industry. I was simply replying and disagreeing with the evidence behind his claim.

  • @TheHeurist

    Honestly though, I think our world is facing issues far greater than this. If you really want to know what's going on, watch "Zeitgeist: Addendum." If you think it's crazy that people could live in that kind of world, watch "Zeitgiest: Moving Forward."

  • ratings :: (1337 total) and only 57 people dumb enough to deny the arithmetic. =)

  • I think the historians in the future will look back at this peak and say ... F*UCK YOU guys, really f*ck you!

  • And I also think everybody in the world should watch these 8 videos (translated into every language), because if we do the world would understand what we are doing and how it's going to destroy us in the end.

  • @JustinBeiberIsPoop Agree !!!! The biggest fucked up religion, the roman catholics, of our country, the third world Philippines, are still endorsing the "go forth and multiply" mentality to its devotees. Our current president, mr. aquino, is fighting in favor of the reproductive health bill to be passed, but the biggest hindrance is the retarded catholic priests and bishops of our God forsaken country. Ironic?... Unless we do something, we'll all die elbowing each other for space.

  • Great video!!! But I only have one thing to say:

    When you think about it, Someone in the world ( the owner of the oil company) is making millions of dollars ( perhaps billions?) every year. They're being paid sooooo much just to make oil taken for granted for us and when we run out we're probably going to go all crazy.

  • Makes you not want to have kids, am i right

  • @godzukification just have only one in the liftetime of yourself and the other parent. If everyone just had one for the next few decades...

  • @godzukification Shit, I don't want to have a kid regardless. LOL Annoying little buggers

  • @godzukification: Makes YOU not want to have kids. So mine can live. Thanks for that, my sacrificial sheep! ^^ My heritage will be the last thing living on this planet, even if it’s (duh) the last thing I’ll do! ^^ (Yes, you can fight me. That’s good since it’s the point. You can even fight unfairly. But I will will. ^^)

  • @godzukification Makes you want to hand out birth control

  • @godzukification Yeah, and no wife too. But maybe a couple girlfriends.

  • @godzukification Monsanto is taking care of that, with reproduction disruption in lab rats as one of the side effects of their GMO patented, sterile "food". I really wish North America would label it.

  • @godzukification This video planted a seed of doubt in my mind, there is no way I am having kids now.

  • @EliteDoomer hehehe

  • @JohnnyGivancicCacic I heard that.

  • @EliteDoomer hehehe

  • @godzukification While it would have been nice to have kids....I love my future kids so much.....that I will spare them their journey on earth, which will be shitty at best.....by not having them!!!!

  • @brbr28 No no no. If you are smart enough to realise that you shouldn't have kids, then you should definitely have kids!! I was one of the 53 people who saw 'Idiocracy', great film, but it paints an even dimmer prospect for humanity than the good Dr here. Check it out.

  • WHY CAN`T I SHARE THIS VIDEO ON FACEBOOK???

    I don`t have any problems with other videos, but when i click share on this video it just stays at LOADING...

  • if nothing else, this guy was right about ethanol sucking.

  • ...

    *Shops for electric car and solar panels*

  • we need a pipe from earth to jupiter so then we can get gas?

  • 8:06 right, wrong or whatever this moment sums it all up

  • @pissandwind i'd say that's a great lesson. i hope everyone has been paying attention.

  • @pissandwind ,no we need to think together

  • how old is this video?

  • Humans are like fat kids eating the entire piece of pie then going hungry when there's nothing left.

  • Assholes have turned the world into a septic tank and experts like that exist in an attempt to prevent us form poking our heads out of the bullshit they have spent so much time burying us in.

  • @darkblood626

    The data from this video is consistent with the majority of scientific conclusions across the globe.  Make sure to do your research man. But I hope you're right and reality is just playing tricks on the scientific community.

  • Excellent! Thanks for putting this on youtube!

  • This also explains why the government wants to depopulate the earth by 95%.

  • watch: Collapse documentary . we are all so fucked up :(

  • the decline already started. that means the estimate of 2000 billion barrels overall was the right one. i guess by 2020 we'll notice that something is wrong and 2040 is game over = too little food, transportation and too many people. if people kill animals when they're hungry, they'll kill each other too...

  • good video. but you don't understand ethanol completely. it is producing more energy than it takes to make. it does have limits. but it is making a difference. last years production was 13 Billion gallons in the US. it can be produced without fossil fuel inputs, it would be harder but it is possible. i can't think of any other OPEC country that could pick up that much slack. it may be a small% but every% helps. I would like people to respect the fact that people are trying to make a difference.

  • hilarious..until you think....what the fuck is that @ 7:00

  • It Isn't rocket science! then it shows a close up of that dipshit, Ahahahahaha

  • I don't care if we run out of resources. I have PLENTY of candy and coca-cola in storage!

  • Oil field discoveries in Saudi Arabia in the last 4 years, estimate it's size to be as large as all of the reserves in the U.S. It's unfair to compare the size of the fields of Hibernia and Mars to total U.S. consumption. Those areas were chosen to supply certain areas and lower transportation costs. The math he should be showing us, is how long those reserves would supply a distinct area, then you see how much in reserves you need for the rest of the U.S. and look for those.

  • @thexrayman50 Too bad China is using more and more oil every year. And India. And every other hugely populated third world country.

  • @jimbobanalbeats Hardly China or India can be called third world countries anymore.

  • @6U4RD1AN Well, China is a country of 1.4 billion people. Approximately 300 million of them are what we would consider middle class. That's a fairly small percentage of the larger population, especially compared to the western countries. Let's call it a developing country then, as the media does. I appreciate your comment.

  • @jimbobanalbeats I was trying to tell you to go to the gapminder page to see the statistics in a nice way, but youtube didn't let me to write the name (gapminder*org) they have youtube videos too. The wealth distribution is still a problem, yes, if they manage to answer it, they have a great future, if not, they will probably implode.

  • @6U4RD1AN We'll all implode if things don't equalize.

  • @jimbobanalbeats It would be great if US bring "Production" back from China...and India...the economy is becoming hollow...

  • @jimbobanalbeats ...it is not a matter of third or first world dude! ... the fact is that our species produced babies...and we have to consume less natural resources...

  • @CarlosPagliari I dont even remember what I said that you are replying to. But I agree with you so dont bother attempting to ignite a debate.

  • Yea , and we don't use salt , nickel ,gold ,aluminium ,wood , drinking water to name but a few things ,oooh no we hardly use anything at all.

    Go plastic, kerosene , asphalt etc, etc !!

  • About ethanol ... how come Brazil is pulling it off today then?

  • "That sounds pretty good, until you think" What a great line.

  • Perhaps James Gregory was wrong and Achilles will never reach the turtle. (See Zeno's paradoxes.)

  • We need to do something *NOW*. NOW. Not tomorrow, not next week, not next year, NOW. Fuck! Catastrophe CAN be avoided! Band together and use your brains! While being peaceful...

  • one misleading example from the prof. is about hibernia reserves. the article did not say hibernia would fuel the usa for 50 years, but rather, i suspect that it will take 50 years of work to get that oil.

  • @solarviking who cares how many reserves there are! It doesn't matter how much oil we think is left, the point is that if and when its found, it will be consumed quickly and then what?

    The point is that we can't have a steady rate of growth with a finite resource. China has already adopted the 1 child per family rule. Everyone else needs to follow suit. America, I'm looking at you!

  • Quote from Dr. Bartlett: "We cannot let other people do our thinking for us."

    I deeply wonder... WHEN, if ever, the people on this planet will do that?

  • @NForcer211

    sigh i was gonna comment almost the exact same thing

    damn you for doing it before i did ;)

    i think that's the most important message in the whole presentation. people are sheep, they must recycle ideas other feed them with no analysis whatsoever. it's frightening when you consider how sheep-people reproduce so much and thinkers tend to have a lower rate of reproduction.

  • @sabin97

    Sorry for beating you to it:)

    But your right unfortunately. People tend to believe what the "experts" tell them without even making an effort to test whether their ideas are good are not. That's like letting your accountant do whatever he wants with your money and not having the slitest doubt that he might try to rip you off....

  • The growth rate of global population increase is around 1.1-1.7%. Doubling time 40-70 years.

    So, are you ready to change your morals? Because in a hundred years we'll have 25billion people. In twohundred we'll have over 100billion people. You think japan looks crowded? Wait for the world to catch up and fill our empty space.

    Are you ready to accept that we have to stop living long, and stop surviving? We literally, have to start dieing. End of story. Or find another planet, +3kyears.

  • @leminlyme

    and then its just like when the bacteria found the other glass.

  • listening to this in 2011 is absolutely lulzy! everything he said has happened.

  • The saddest part of this is that Nikola Tesla showed the world in the early 1900s how each one of us could just plug into the earth - wherever we are - and receive enough electricity to run ALL of our electrical needs indefinitely. They killed him and stole all of his research, used it for themselves and kept it from the public because free electricity makes $0.00 for Hydro companies and thus, $0.00 for gov't.

  • It's not that "experts" are dumb. It's that "experts" are paid off by the NWO power elite that don't want us to start going bonkers. You can't leave the system. Where you gonna go to live off the grid? All the land is owned. All the animals are genetically altered. All the water is polluted. Well then what are we supposed to do you ask? 2 choices: nothing, or fight the power elite. You're gonna die either way...

  • @vaginaflypaper

    Prove it? Water is cleaner than it has ever been. Animals are genetically altered... yes it's called SELECTIVE BREEDING and it's been going on since the dawn of civilization!

  • I've ordered a coldsteel spetsnaz shovel... I think that's about all I can do to prepare, that and pray :)

  • To update the picture. Since new awesome discoveries from Brazil's pre-salt oil layer, my country has now 100 billion barrels of probable reserves. That makes up for current (as of 2010) US consumption.... ...for just 15 years.

  • Wow. I love his analysis on ethanol and how it would take the entire agricultural industry producing corn to produce the same amount of oil.

  • The oil producing giants' short term goal is to scrape up as much oil as possible, not taking into account that this is going against their long term goal, making money.

    One has to get it into their heads that in the long run, it is not just in the interest of the whole world but rather in their own personal interst to find new energy sources.

  • you people have no idea of what you are talking about Peak Oil is not about running out, you should take a college science class and read a book

  • IEA 2010 Energy Report Peak Oil of conventional oil happened in 2006 look it up, and also google Alaskan oil reserve downgraded by 90%

  • How can anyone not like this?

  • alternative energy is already developed but locked away ,they're waiting to make all the money they can THEN they ill allow full energy source change. Besides, Tesla already knew that it is possible to have a fuel source that could never be expended but it's a non profit endeavor.

  • I like this video. Thank you for your sharing. Hope to see next your video.

  • whats more disturbing is the level of views that have dropped from the first video to the last video.

    People have such limited focus sometimes.

  • @mikeaphex No, the video just sucks.

  • @mikeaphex No, the video just sucks

  • Best quote: "now that sounds pretty good... until you THINK."

  • it cuts out at 3:15...wtf

  • @vaginaflypaper It played fine for me just now; try checking back, sometimes you just get a quirky connection on a particular video for no discernible reason.

  • It would be hilarious if someday, by some amazing set of circumstances, it actually did turn out that arithmetic doesn't hold in Boulder after all.

  • after the oil companies squeeze there last profits out of oil,we might just start seeing the hidden technologies that have been kept from us

  • DrivenMind: There are those who have supported and promoted Dr. Bartlett's views for decades. We are called Commie leftist liberal treehugging chicken little scaremongers who should just grow up and join the "real" world. Get it?