Remove oil and gas and civilisation collapses
Tom KirkmanIndependent Project Manager
Hydrocarbons are what power modern civilization.
Remove oil & gas from the equation, and civilization collapses not long after, starved of reliable energy.
This really is not difficult to understand.
Bread and circuses and media disinformation are the shiny object distractions which apparently keep large numbers of Westerners from seeing what should be obvious.
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“Today we explore what *complex systems* are and how they have features that we simply have to appreciate and respect.
However, unfortunately, none of the World Economic Forum or western leaders seem to have any awareness of the fact that they live in a world composed of complex systems and governed by this pesky thing we call ‘reality.’
One reason we suspect this is their insistence on the idea that we can readily transition to ‘clean energy.’ However, even the most basic of straightforward (linear) arithmetic reveals it cannot be done.
All that’s required to come to this conclusion is to simply divide current rates of mineral and metal production into the minimum requirements for a first-generation clean energy build-out.
● When we do, we discover that it would take anywhere from hundreds to thousands of years to mine the resources needed to build the desired renewable energy world.
At best we’ve got a decade or two left before a permanent energy decline bites and renders all such dreams to the dustbin of what could have been.
… If we can’t even properly manage simple math (add, subtract, multiply and divide) for our most dominant narratives, what hope is there that the subtleties of complex systems command a proper seat at the table?
Complex systems are what govern our world and define our reality. They share a couple of important features.
(1) They are inherently unpredictable.
(2) They owe their order and complexity to energy flows.
● Our economy is a complex system. Take its energy away, and it will extremely rapidly “simplify” and become a lot less dynamic, complex, and interesting.
● Your body is a complex system. Starve it for food, and you too will quite rapidly become a lot less interesting and dynamic, and eventually dead. …”