I have seen the future, and I doesn't like it.

[green-man-2010.livejournal.com]

Life after the oil crash.
Ok, last time, I went and pinned it on a vid that most people cannot read at work.
So I am letting y'all boot up something you can read quitely when you oght to be working :)

http://www.lifeaftertheoilcrash.net/

In case you have trouble reading graphs, this one has a Blue Peter style 'talk you through the implications' - complete with original sources, for those who wanna check.

It might seem like I am doom mongering , but I just want to say -
Let's put more into Planned Parenthood, make it optional, but make it a damned sight easier at home and abroad.

Let's have oil rationing, sooner rather than later. Let's also have everything rationed if it's made with oil.

let's try to be civilised about the few resources left and share them out among ourselves.

Let's start reducing consumption , reusing things and recycling more.

let's remember that civilisation as we know it will be over by 2050, if it lasts that long.

Comments

[green-man-2010.livejournal.com]

the same way the UK govt raioned food and clothes during WW".
did the USa have rationing during the war? maybe not - but everyone got an allocation of resources by govt boffins, nd was sent the coupons.
When you went to buy , you handed over coupons and cash in exchange for goods.

if you could, you saved up coupons and sold them to rich folks for extra cash.

Today, with lotsa poor folks having no cars , it's "Yeah , I don't use petrol myself, so you can have my couplons for 50 quid"
The guy with a ferrari gets to drive it, the guy who can't afford a car gets to eat.

I like that idea.

[mahnmut.livejournal.com]

Coupons. What a great idea. Try to explain that to the oil-thirsty Westerner.

[johnny9fingers.livejournal.com]

Try competing with China for the remaining reserves.

[mahnmut.livejournal.com]

Let's compete with China ... through coupons.