Tuesday, December 14, 2010

'Collapse'

trailer

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3 comments:

Glynn Kalara said...

Oy!

8:54 PM
Jim Sande said...

Just watched it on netflix. Interesting person. He's talking no oil Armageddon. I am looking at his website. It costs to join which I would never do, but still checking it out.

9:04 PM
Glynn Kalara said...

His idea was made into series on one of those cable disaster epics produced by the same group that did the "Life After People" series. They did one called, "Life after Oil" and it wasn't pretty. This is a variant of the "peak oil" idea that's been around for decades, but I don't take either too seriously. I learned from Y2k that society is much more flexible and much more resilient technologically speaking then we think. Technology isn't what's going to take us down we can do that ourselves without technology. Oil isn't just suddenly going to vanish and we have many examples of what happens when it does. Germany in WW2 lost almost all of it's OIL resources by 1945, but it had developed a robust coal to synthetic oil Industry underground and was able to supply most of it's war effort with that to the end. Brazil uses almost no gasoline to power it's cars, it has a huge alcohol Industry that converts abundant sugar cane crops to alcohol and all the cars in Brazil burn alcohol instead of gas. So. Africa in the 80's was also developing a synthetic oil Industry like Germany did. We have enormous supplies of Nat. Gas here we can and will expliot even though it's got issues with the water table. These issues will be mitigated as the Industry is regulated in the States . I hope. My pt. is we have lots of other resources before we ever reach OIL zero. Now as far as price is concerned. I actually hope OIL goes sky high. It's the only thing that will wean us off OIL. When it gets way to expensive we'll change or our economy will fold. Watch how fast we convert to electric cars when that happens. It's already started.

11:51 AM

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