Ahh Hazza, what a wonderful outlook on life you have!

‘She’ll be right’! We can just keep on doing what we are doing now and not only will there be no downside, but we will actually be improving the whole caboodle!!

So um… why are you concerned about population growth then? And why do you hate politicians and bureaucrats and economists and academics and…. ?

To say that this doesn’t add up would be a rather enormous understatement!

What about Bazz’s comments? Even huge new oil finds are only going to extend the age of oil dependency by a very little bit, given the staggering magnitude of current consumption.

As far as I’m concerned, climate change is very secondary to the enormous impact on our economy and societal cohesion that the energy crunch is going to have. And it will be rising prices rather than shortages that triggers it.

We CAN develop renewable energy. And we’d better start doing it pretty damn soon! It doesn’t mean that we have to make a complete switch away from oil, just a considerably different balance between oil, other fossil fuels and renewables to what we currently have.

And it would be rather sensible if we used a fair hunk of the remaining relatively cheap oil to facilitate this change.

I trust you will be watching Dick Smith’s ‘Ten Bucks a Litre’, docco on ABC1 this Thursday evening! http://www.abc.net.au/tv/programs/ten-bucks-a-litre/

Anyone who thinks that you can have expotential growth in a finite world is either a
madman or an economist !

Anyone who has doubts about the effect of peak oil, now has a test case to examne.
Egypt is a very good example.
Its oil production peaked in 1995.
It is now an oil importer.
Its main source of food, the Nile Valley can produce for about 40 million.
It has used all its wealth buying food & fuel imports.
Tourism has ceased because of revolution.
Its population has grown to 83 million.
Egypt is broke and has no way to raise enough money to feed the population.

Australia is not likely to have a food problem but the world as a unit can easily be an
expanded version of Egypt.

It will probably become a fsiled state quite soon.

So Hazza, did you watch it?

Sorry Luddy, I've been a bit busy, & not keeping up here.

No mate, it would take a pretty earth shattering event to get me to turn anything to the ABC. Of the last few years of their programing I did watch I found I had to switch it off, I am not prepared to be insulted by their "B" graders thinking they can cone me with their disguised propaganda.

Hazza, you should not pre-judge something like this. Watch it on ABC iview. You may be pleasantly surprised!

I reckon Dick Smith did a top job putting this docco together… except for his support of nuclear power!