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Gold/Mining/Energy : PEAK OIL - The New Y2K or The Beginning of the Real End? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Mahatmabenfoo who wrote (293)	4/10/2005 10:36:10 PM
From: Doug R	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1183

You can't say that civilization as a whole has not been a long continuous climb just because localized civilizations have collapsed. While the Mayans were collapsing, other localized civilizations were advancing. During the Dark Ages in Europe, Chinese civilization was advancing. Local collapses are also part of the learning curve. Learning from ones own mistakes or those of another is a necessary part of advancement. Certainly there have been fits and starts but over the entirity of humankind's life on Earth, it has been a long continuous climb. The point of the article however is that there are no longer any significant localized civilizations. No "islands" of civilization to carry forward when another "island" collapses. All of civilization has become so dependent on a single resource that a loss of that resource has the potential to collapse civilization as a whole. We're all on the same island now.