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Aneirin -> The End of the Oil Age ? (6/10/2011 3:37:57 AM)
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Would you send your child to war to fight over the last barrels of oil? Would you go yourself? Or pay taxes to support such a war? What will you do when oil is no longer “cheap” and abundant? What will you do if climate change becomes climate chaos? We have no choice about the end of the petroleum age. But we can choose how gracefully we make the transition. - By Thom Hartmann
Stone Age, Bronze Age, Iron Age, Dark Age.............Oil Age,
All ages where it is said there was significant progress of mankind, the resources discovered and used enabled that progress, but as we know from history, ages decline to be replaced with something else, the next step in mankind's progression and so as our present oil age is coming to an end, what do we have to replace it with, or have we declined too far, clung onto our dependancy long past it's use by date, what hope for our futures ?
The end of oil is coming, there is no doubt about that, and with the end of oil is the inevitable warring and scrapping for control of that finite resource, perhaps why we it seems in recent decades we are involved in perpetual war with some country or other, perhaps even the war on terror was designed to enable actions in oil bearing regions of the world, who knows, but where there is madness, there is method.
Oil is running out, so what do we do, do we tell out leaders to stop titting about in oil bearing regions of the world, which just happen to also threaten our lives, save the money wasted in killing and use it to develop alternative technologies for our future,( just like president BO promised way back before he was awarded power) or what, what can we do. What should we do to ensure our survival, as we know full well everything, our food and water depends on oil, what is the way ahead, the Nuclear Age or is it a comlete change of our society that is required ?
Should we depend on others to come up with a solution or is it down to ourselves to start thinking the way ahead, as hey, we are all a bit more savvy with regards progressional thought these days, the ability to read and write has enabled that, let alone the internet, which of course also depends on oil, so it also is a finite resource which if we don't pull our finger out we will also lose along with the oil.
But whilst the internet is still with us, it is enabling the sharing of ideas world wide, for there exists thousands of websites on the internet where brains collide and ideas are discussed and experimented with, quite apart from big industry and it's goals. People who describe themselves as humanitarian, the left field thinker who believe there is more to this world than oil and big business. They have long since seen the end of the oil age coming and they are doing practical things about it, perhaps it is they we should look to and learn as one thing is for sure, big business will also die or at least suffer big time when oil becomes uneconomical to obtain or just plain runs out.
But whilst we are still dependant on oil, we will be engaged in yet more wars to come, our future is war, more bloodshed and more wealth squandered and perhaps even the end of ourselves and the world as we know it, if not the end of life on earth by our hand, well, those who say they act in our best interest at least. Where will we fight next and where will we fight last, well follow the oil and those interested in that oil, Russia, China both countries that can hit us as hard as we hit them, maybe more so, so perhaps the finality will be the slugging it out by the two remaining hard hitters just to chase a finite resource that will come to an end.
Where is the sense in that ?
So, what do we do, do we do it now whilst we still can or bury our heads in the sand expecting our leaders to look after our interests, (leaders whom many suspect have bigger interests to maintain long before us).
The apocalypse is upon us, is it an inevitable or is it a choice ? Can we choose our future or are we all doomed along with the oil we covert so much, oil, which is literally death from the past.
So what do others think ?
Time for action or yet more destruction ?
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