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Letter Re: Jared Diamond Predicts the End of Cheap Oil and an 85% Global Population Decline
Mr. Rawles,
I
found this article informative. A quote: "Cheap, plentiful
fossil fuels discovered in the last hundred years (or so) spurred a food bubble,
which
led
to a population bubble. Cheap
oil, in other words, created the temporary conditions necessary to support
a runaway population explosion that is, without question, unsustainable without
cheap energy." Here is another quote: "complex civilizations are
quite fragile, and short-terming thinking can easily doom a society or civilization
to irreversible
collapse."
The author believes that world population
will be reduced to 1/7th of its current size in a post-oil economy. BTW, there
are lots of other links on that web site that are worth exploring. I enjoy
reading
your blog. Regards, - I.L.
