TV Food for Thought

[Ctuchik]

So once the oil runs out it will have come as a complete surprise and nobody will have thought of anything to replace it ?

ppl are working on it but surprise surprise, they aint exactly getting alot of help here...

so while ppl ARE working on it doesent mean a replacable fuel will be available in large enough quantities once the oil do run out.

so when (yes when) the industrial countries crash i bet my right arm that Cuba will be laughing their arses off at us

 

[old.Tohtori]

Haven't seen the program, but i believe nature works wonders in limiting humans.

The only problem is the human nature of saving every single one.

Maybe we need to become a bit more bastards?

 

[MYstIC G]

Africa, which is not, as most people would believe, a barren desert full of Lions

Lies, we have proof!!!!!

 

[Wij]

ppl are working on it but surprise surprise, they aint exactly getting alot of help here...

so while ppl ARE working on it doesent mean a replacable fuel will be available in large enough quantities once the oil do run out.

so when (yes when) the industrial countries crash i bet my right arm that Cuba will be laughing their arses off at us

Um - proof ?

If you think big oil companies are going to think to themselves "We've had a good run, when the oil runs out we'll just close the business", then you're quite deluded.

Oil companies aren't worried about it at the minute because there's plenty of oil (when there isn't they'll look at other stuff.)

Real scientists aren't worried because there's plenty of Uranium/Plutonium/Thorium/Hydrogen.

Greenies aren't worried because they think you can power a nation with pinwheels.

What is not going to happen is that we'll all go back to some pre-industrial way of life that people romanticise as an idyllic harmony with nature, rather than the disease-ridden, anxiety-filled, near-slavery (or near-starvation if you want to go back beyond organised society) existence it actually was.

 

[rynnor]

What is not going to happen is that we'll all go back to some pre-industrial way of life that people romanticise as an idyllic harmony with nature, rather than the disease-ridden, anxiety-filled, near-slavery (or near-starvation if you want to go back beyond organised society) existence it actually was.

Aye - I actually did work on the land for a few months and it is ugly - the hardest work I ever did and I was young n fit back then.

Its more like existence than living as your too knackered to do anything after a long days work and your working in all weathers.

I cant see us ever getting back to that - I think we would ahnillate ourselves through war before we'd go back to that.

 

[Zenith]

Nope, I dont think we're going back to that. Why would we? With modern technology we wouldnt have to. Given there is motivation, we have the means and knowhow to create great technological wonders which will work with nature, rather than against.


That is, if our motivation switch from dead-on economic to a more sensible goal.