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Gold/Mining/Energy : PEAK OIL - The New Y2K or The Beginning of the Real End?

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To: kryptonic6 who wrote (107)	2/20/2005 8:46:22 PM
From: Raymond Duray	Read Replies (3) of 1183

Re: Thus, the age/era of our growth-based economic system must also end very soon after we peak, since economic growth is impossible without increasing energy availability. "It ain't necessarily so." :) Currently, there are plans on the board for about 100 new coal-fired generation plants in the U.S. Europe is going nuts over wind-power. China is taking the lead in developing pebble bed nuclear plants. What will happen when crude oil becomes scarce is that there will be all sorts of flowering of other energy resources. Inevitably, life will be harsher for those who fail to adapt. And human populations really ought to be rationalized. But we can count on our species' arrogance and incapacity to control our populations to overwhelm the system until collapse. Here's something beyond the energy crisis that is quite ominous, IMHO: Message 21064231 Humanity seems poised to destroy the planet in order to maintain pointlessly large surpluses of useless humans.

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