FunnyMoney
20th February 2011, 09:51 PM
As people and their systems spend more and more of their precious wealth and resources in an attempt to simply maintain things at the same level, doomsday becomes even more certain.
So says Ugo Bardi in a very interesting and painfully realistic interview on the Feb. 19th, 2011 Financial Sense News Network radio show...
http://www.financialsense.com/financial-sense-newshour
In what I would call "torture over radio," Ugo Bardi walks listeners through the sudden collapse of an empire.
Bardi describes how things can linger on for decades and even centuries, but in those follow on years nothing is as it was and that collapsing civilizations are turned upside-down in a mere generation or less, as is what took place in Rome.
In the interview, Ugo Bardi describes how complex systems within a society become more complex and more entrenched in their ways. He relates the importance of resources to every great civilization and details how ever more resources are required to just tread water. Once a society resigns itself to treading water by way of the greater and faster exhaustion of resorces, doom becomes certain and the end is near.
Oil will be reserved to keep workers working and industry humming; you can forget boating and airpline trips for recreation, those things will get very expensive first. Oil will be reserved for critical industry, mining, lighting and heating; transportation will need to be done by rail or if not, then get a bike. Oil will be directed towards the military and for large agro business; everything else must be put on hold, indefinately. Finally oil, what oil?
This last paragraph is my speculation. Still, I suggest you listen to the interview and then get back and tell me how speculative it really is.
So says Ugo Bardi in a very interesting and painfully realistic interview on the Feb. 19th, 2011 Financial Sense News Network radio show...
http://www.financialsense.com/financial-sense-newshour
In what I would call "torture over radio," Ugo Bardi walks listeners through the sudden collapse of an empire.
Bardi describes how things can linger on for decades and even centuries, but in those follow on years nothing is as it was and that collapsing civilizations are turned upside-down in a mere generation or less, as is what took place in Rome.
In the interview, Ugo Bardi describes how complex systems within a society become more complex and more entrenched in their ways. He relates the importance of resources to every great civilization and details how ever more resources are required to just tread water. Once a society resigns itself to treading water by way of the greater and faster exhaustion of resorces, doom becomes certain and the end is near.
Oil will be reserved to keep workers working and industry humming; you can forget boating and airpline trips for recreation, those things will get very expensive first. Oil will be reserved for critical industry, mining, lighting and heating; transportation will need to be done by rail or if not, then get a bike. Oil will be directed towards the military and for large agro business; everything else must be put on hold, indefinately. Finally oil, what oil?
This last paragraph is my speculation. Still, I suggest you listen to the interview and then get back and tell me how speculative it really is.