Peak-oil part 1 of 2

documentary on the depletion of oil

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• oil
• crisis
• depletion
• browne
• peak
• bp
• colin
• campbell
• energy
• fuel
• gas

[He101A]

What the hell can we do? Absolutely nothing. Depopulation is on the way.

[PeakedEarth]

You can't run the cars, trucks, and ships on alternate energy. Alternate energy is just a drop in the bucket compared to the energy being provided by oil - especiall cheap oil.

[Clausewitzz]

@Troforso

Society doesnt work without growth, our debt based money system allways needs growth to function.

So allthough balance is really the way to go for it just doesnt fit in the curent system, and a system of society doesnt change easily, partly becaus those who controll it like to keep their controll in whatever way thinkable, it often only changes in times of chaos, conflict and misery.

[Troforso]

@He101A well i agree, there should be a maximum 2 kids per person. Should be a world law.

[Troforso]

? so we have given up the thought off other resaurces? i mean oil aint the only thing making energy. If someone could learn how to store lightning etc we wouldnt have any problem.

[walter0bz]

@Standuble -

what terrifies me is the number unaware, the number deniers, and the number of optimists convinced a solution is more likely

[Standuble]

@walter0bz It's going to be messy, if you view images or videos of North Korea the peasant farmers have literally stripped many hills and mountains clean of vegetation in an attempt to create farmland, because their previous farmland used to use petro-chemicals in the USSR days and they lost the top soil and could not use it for non-petro-chemical farming. It's unsettling to see, its even more unsettling to imagine it on a worldwide scale - environmental damage and human strife.

[walter0bz]

@Standuble -agree, every use of fossil fuels contributed to carrying capacity. We used to use horses for transport. When we moved to petrol cars, the land that used to feed the horse can now feed more people. We used to use wood for heating/construction, when we moved to metals and plastics the land that grew the wood could then feed more people ...

[Standuble]

Even if we localise and become self-sufficient, we still have to somehow feed 7 billion people, where a huge amount of the crop yield is created by petro-chemical fertilisers (essentially growing several times the amount of the food in one acre than they would without it.) Before oil and coal were widely used, the world population struggled to exceed 500 million people, spending millennia at about half that. What will happen to us if we can no longer use oil and coal on a worldwide scale?

[xs0heavenly]

We're not powerless. There are things we can do. We can re-localize our economies and our daily lives. Learn how to grow your own food. Start riding your bicycle. Get out of debt, and stop spending money you don't have on things you don't need. In the coming years, community will be key. It's time to start building resilient, autonomous communities that are able to withstand energy shocks/rising oil prices.

[revolution94ful]

@symmetry08 sadly i doubt that will happen. I think it's so funny that people think China will replace the US as a superpower. The reason for this, is due to the fact that by the time the chinese pass the US, oil will have run it's limit. Let's face it, China won't have the resources to beat the US, and the US won't have the resources to stay a superpower anyway. The world will go into decline, and there is nothing that will stop it. You are in the future now, this is the best humanity will have

[symmetry08]

oil should go out as sourse of energy by 2055. By 2035 no coutry in the world will export oil fuel products