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No bone with the article, RobertSmalls. It just shows that as a whole, mankind has transgressed. It has grown to such an extent that sustaining current populations on locally available resources is impossible for some regions (particularly northern regions). Nature avoids this by the process of natural selection. If we were animals, a die-off would have been in the offing... We chose to disable the applicability of that natural selection. Our population, as a species, is not regulated by nature, but by the skewed application of resources at our disposal. This is the main reason why Peak Oil and its aftereffects would and should bother us.
In Q2/2008, we just saw a very brief trailer of high price oil scenario. Its effects on the economy were no less than disastrous. I shudder to think what the scene would be if the high prices sustained over a period because of genuine shortages - Several Sci-fi movies with apocalypse as a theme come to my mind...
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