Reply #11: Well, if the "they" you speak of are 20 somethings. [View All]

[lapfog_1]

They won't tell their grandchildren anything... they won't have any (or many) grandchildren to tell stories to.

Forget all the other stuff, we eat oil. Without oil we don't feed (however poorly) 6+ billion. We don't feed 2 billion people. Chances are, we don't feed .5 billion. Oil makes the fertilizer, oil makes the machinery of modern farming go, oil pumps the water from underground to water the fields, and oil allows the farmers to ship their crops everywhere. If we are simultaneously facing a tipping point with global warming AND peak oil, there won't be any grandchildren. Not without some real wrenching shifts in how humans on this planet work.

Shifts that may not be technically possible yet. Shifts that will be economically unpleasant (to say the least).

And, btw, even if tomorrow we did not burn another drop of fossil fuel AND still do all the things we do now, there still won't be any salmon (or cod or tuna or ...) left in 50 years.