What will be the world in two years like?
Question from Joe Waxman at Facebook was:
What will life be like in a year or two from now? Pretty much the same, or drastically different? What do you think?
Here’s my shot. Retelling the quite proliferated story of oil depletion, well spread by John Michael Greer (to name my favorite doom & gloom writer).
Less of unpolluted natural environment, hence less quality water and soil. Less oil = less of everything oil based, which is 90% of the present system. Economic growth of China, India, Brasil, Russia (more machine produced stuff), economic downfall of US, Europe (more human production again). More nuclear factories worldwide (because of energy depletion from cheap fossil fuels and no other option acceptable by the (lazy, spoiled) society – they can’t accept the only real option, to use less energy, because it’s going right against the present economic habit of continual growth, continual consumerism, continual hedonistic lifestyle, we are all in this interwined by being addicts of the present comfort). In US, Europe – more human produced food, with less use of oil based products, hence more natural. Back to local economy models. All of this is logically resulting from my basic presumtion, which is “less of cheap fossil fuels”. If not in two years, very soon anyway.