TOTAL Oil Boss gives Peak Oil Warning
In the last few years there have been a series of remarkable u-turns from the world’s top oil companies. Not long ago they were saying that man-made climate change was a myth and funding scientists who were prepared to agree with that. Now, however, they all say that climate change is taking place and that greenhouse gas emissions are at least partly responsible. Indeed, they are all spending millions to prove their green credentials by starting projects that will reduce emissions to some extent.
Peak Oil and Peak Food
Peak Oil is another matter. Until now the message coming from the oil companies is that Peak Oil – the time when a peak in production is reached, followed by a decline in production in the face of increasing demand, causing severe shortages – is many decades in to the future. Recently though there are indications that at least one company has changed its mind.
In this week’s Time magazine, Christophe de Boisseson, CEO of the French oil giant Total, speaks openly about the nightmare scenario oil shortages that most energy firms prefer to avoid or deny. De Margerie says the possible effects on the world economy of dwindling oil supplies are so great that, “I am not prepared to shut my mouth.” Shortly after taking over at Total he jolted executives at a London conference by stating that the industry would be unlikely to produce more than 100 million barrels a day, far below the 120 million or so the International Energy Agency estimates the world could produce by 2030, and which will be needed for Asia’s galloping growth. De Margerie now says 90 million barrel a day is “optimistic.”
This is worrying for the health of the world economy, but for the future of food production it is devastating. Western agriculture is totally dependent on oil and the rest of the world is rapidly becoming so. It is expected that food production will need to double in the next 40 years as the population continues to rise and as more people demand a better diet. To increase food production using modern methods requires a corresponding increase in fossil energy inputs. A serious shortage would cause the farming industry to collapse.
The truth about our situation is so unpalatable that most people will prefer to not believe it, but it must be said. The carrying capacity of the Earth has been temporarily increased by the massive use of finite resources. When these resources become depleted, the Earth’s carrying capacity and therefore its population will be reduced – in other words mass starvation and we in the West are the most vulnerable.
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But not to worry if your a woman. Just like in Haiti now, it will be women and children first……..while armed forces keep men away from the food and starve to death. Problem is, that it was men the invented, discovered, and built nearly everything, and it is men the mine, farm, transport, and maintain nearly all infrastructure……..so while the women think this kind of misandry is good……..it means there wont be enough men to provide and protect them. Not to mention all the rioting. Notice how the mainstream media is not reporting why all the men in Haiti are rioting. They are being dilibrately cut out of medicine, food, shelter……..women are being treated for minor injuries while men and dying meters away while having major injuries ignored. Women are getting food………and it’s being withheld from men.
Stu,
You obviously never heard of the Women’s Land Army in the UK in WW-II!!
The women fed the folks back home whilst the boys went out and played with their guns.
My next door neighbour here is an old, old lady. I cannot actually find out exactly how old she is. She works her land and puts me to shame. She can plant three rows of potatoes in the time that it takes me to plant one.
So take your head out of your misogynist arse and get a grip of the real world! You know actuarial tables all over the world will show that women live longer than men.
And don’t you just spout a load of bollox about what men and women discovered/invented? Yeah – right! Because the like of you Male Chauvinist Pig would love to stop them learning anything except cooking and ironing anyway.
Get a fucking life!!