Wednesday, December 8, 2010

The Peak Oil Crisis: The Future of Government

by Tom Whipple from Fall Church News Press.
A completely new paradigm of what we do to sustain life is going to have to emerge or things will become far worse than most of us have ever known. Modern civilization simply cannot stand a situation in which a substantial share of its people is destitute. The potential for social disorder is too great.

If current trends continue, somewhere in the next five years a critical mass of us will realize that new foundations for civilization, and new ways of life must be found and implemented if we are going to survive with a modicum of comfort, economic, and political stability.
Well put. I hope that he is right about a "critical mass" in the next five years. However, he makes no mention of climate change, and I think that it is a race against time to "establish new foundations for civilization" to avert the devastating consequences of climate change. Maybe that is why he gives us only five years.