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The Problem:
1 - Geological predictions
for a global peak in oil production sometime from 2005-2007, with terminal
decline self-evident by 2010.
2 - Growing demand + plateau in supply means rising
oil prices far exceeding $US40 bbl.
3 - Terminal depletion of the resource means no return to cheap oil.
Possible Consequences:
4 - Oil supply and price volatility over the next 5 years accompanied
by economic instability (stagflation).
5 - A terminal global economic decline after 2010 with possible global
stock market and banking crash.
6 - Terminal recession followed by a great
depression until alternative energy sources can be developed (decades
away).
7 - There's only a decade to find an alternative to the internal combustion
and jet engines for mass transport.
8 - Ditto the petrochemicals that supply industrial agriculture with pesticides
and fertilizer.
9 - 500 000 consumer commodities using plastics, detergents, solvents,
paints, drugs and synthetic fibers rely on oil as a feedstock
.
10 - Rising prices for food and commodities, shortages, increasingly expensive
shipping freight and air travel.
11 - Rising longer term unemployment across the board.
12 - The end of welfare, free education and Medicare.
13 - Localisation
of food production, travel, work and manufacturing as vehicle use declines.
14 - Middle class poverty (the
end of suburbia).
15 - Reliance on depleting gas for electricity means a move to nuclear
(arms proliferation and waste) and/or coal (runaway
global warming).
16 - Energy
wars.
17 - A massive, radical and sustained change in our way of life as we
transition to alternative energy sources and the economic/political order
they support.
What to do:
18 - Research
the problem for yourself.
19 - Contact your local, state and federal representatives.
20 - Organise to help get the message
out.
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