is, will cross a major threshold.
Western society has grown from modest beginnings into a global
octopus strangling all life around the planet.
This growth has been fueled largely by oil, to a lesser extent by other
fossil fuels. Fortunately for our society as well as all other life forms,
the Age of Oil is rapidly waning. My feeling is, and has been for
some time, we have overshot the earth's capacity to sustain
human society at its present level of growth and consumption.
We are approaching, within the next 50 years or so, that payoff
point, where we begin to use energy resources faster than they
can be developed, using more energy than is available in the
resource itself. There is a physical limit to human growth, and we
must devise a society that can live and thrive within that
physical limit.
next
Oil?
diseased economy."