Life After Teh Oil Crash

[The_Meach]

It's been theorized that the Maya civilization crashed because they overexploited their agricultural resources. People could be wrong, however.

Modern civilization could easily crash due to reasons unrelated to oil.

Cool. I'll try to check out the Mayan civ.

Modern civ could definitely crash for other reasons.

[ChaoofNee]

Modern civilization could easily crash due to reasons unrelated to oil.

Yeah, EThugg's gonna find a way to do it before oil can.
I just know it.

[Johnny]

The Easter Islanders tell a great story of resource depletion and the dangers that come with it. At one point in history they had the only written language in Polynesia, they built those huge moai statues and generally thrived. However the land couldn't support the population of thousands and it was soon stripped of trees, wich lead to soil erosion and species extinction. The social fabric decayed and society devolved into war until there were but a small fraction left by the the time European explorers entered the picture. The Eastern Island analogy is used often by conservationists and it holds a lot of truth, Earth can only sustain so many people with a certain kind of lifestyle and sustainability must be the ultimate goal. People need to toss their imperial thinking and look at the facts, Earth's resources are in a state of decline and the sooner things are turned around the less it's going to hurt.

[youandwhosearmy]

Modern civilization could easily crash due to reasons unrelated to oil.

Yes, like a global superstorm, or "Ice age."

Hey, whadda ya know?


http://www.whoi.edu/institutes/occi/...uptclimate.htm

http://eob.gsfc.nasa.gov/Newsroom/Me...031311354.html

http://www.fortune.com/fortune/techn...582584,00.html

[Joust Williams]

It's obvious some of you haven't played Donkey Kong.

[Calliander]

People like you make me want to buy an H2 out of spite, coat the entire thing in chrome, and run over baby seals with it. I'd roam the streets looking for Prius owners to blind with double-strength Xenon highbeams

I agree with the baby seal part, but do I really make you want to do that? Or are you talking about the people who hate SUV's for ecological reasons? I hate SUV's in my constant class-warfare thing; because as we all know, only fat, white Americans with poor driving skills and a ton of money drive SUV's.

[Gymkata]

There are always those Rappers with their Escalades. They need protection from Napalms hummer.

Yes I like to beat the dead horse

[The_Meach]

as we all know, only fat, white Americans with poor driving skills and a ton of money drive SUV's.

Make that 'fit, tan, soccer moms w/poor driving skills and large cell phone bills.'

[Calliander]

Make that 'fit, tan, soccer moms w/poor driving skills and large cell phone bills.'

Ah, yeah, I forgot about them, too. Thanks for the reminder. Those cell phone things cause so many freaking accidents when soccer moms use them because they talk and drive. Dirty bitches.

[Gohron]

Has anyone purchased the guy's book? He sent me a free copy because I'm enlisted in the Armed Forces (.pdf format). I'll probably start reading it tonight or tommorow.