Interesting subject Arjay.
None of the responses so far have mentioned something that is my soap box.
You may not be aware that for every calorie of food energy that we
produce requires 10 calories of hydrocarbon energy.
This is made up largely of diesel for farm machinery and transport.
Fertilisers produced from natural gas and other nitrogen products.
Energy used by food processors.
Transport and refrigeration at the retail end of the process.

Now, if you plot oil & coal production and population you find that
the graphs track EXACTLY from about 1850 to date.
The reason of course is the industrialisation of food production and distribution.
It was this energy gain that enabled many people to leave the land
and work in factories during the 19th century.

The energy for food production will become much more expensive and in
some countries such as Australia will be rationed !
A terrifying thought for many but oil for food production will have
to have priority. Gradually the number of farmers will have to change
from about 1 in every 100 people to more like 1 in every 10 or 15.
The ratio at the beginning of the 18th century was about 1 in 3.
Earlier than that it was that everyone worked on the land.

With the reduction in energy production, a reduction in population
will inevitably track. Starvation ? Women's malnutrition ?
Who knows, but a start down this track has already started and a date
can even be placed on it. The date of the Egyptian revolution, which
was a protest on food costs.

Bazz there is no shortage of energy.Currently in the West we have an elite who want total control.Read Agenda 21 of the United Nations.

I'd like to see the world's pop stabalise and reduce somewhat but not the drastic changes by some of our elites in the West want.They have really go a lot of people offside.

This is another reason for the establishment of the BRICS Nations.India and China have the largest populations and now have banded together with Brazil,South Africa and Iran for military and economic security.They are launching a new Bank for development.

Sorry Arjay, you are wrong. Peak Crude oil occurred in 2006, IEA 2010 !
At present we are on the predicted plateau.
All the unconventional oil that all the hype is all about may delay the
real problem by a couple of years or so.
If the US and Europe had not cut back their oil usage by 5 and 2 million
barrels a day we would already be talking about rationing.
However the hidden problem is net oil production and the export land model.
Do your research on that Arjay, and there is not even a conspiracy there !

By next year we will only have one refinery,( in WA), and will rely on
what others will be prepared to let us buy.

This what the BITRE report was about that the government tried to hide.