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    Posted: 30-Jan-2007 at 19:33
We know that at some point, humanity is going to suffer from the natural disaster. In many movies, like 'Day After Tomorrow' and "Inconvienent Truth"... mankind still continues to deplete ozone, demand for more land to contain the human garbages, oil and other chemical spills that kill off many species... overhunting, clearing land for farmland... or simply more space for human beings... Mother Nature might strike us with powerful global natural disasters. Assuming that it did, which civilization would survive and decline... basically, what would be the change in human history? Use your imagination... with logical reasonings... of course. But we know that history was never logical in the first place...LOL
     
   
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  Quote Adalwolf Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 30-Jan-2007 at 20:28
Depends on which areas are hit and how severe. 
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Well, just take a look at history. Several civilizations have found disaster either natural or artificial. The cases of Easter Island, the Mayans and many other are paradigmatic. Others survived major natural disasters like the Minoic civilization when the volcano Thera exploted.
 
Today we live in a global civilization so, if something goes wrong, it will affect us all.
 
In Austral Chile and Argentina, for example, people are all the year around expossed to ultraviolet radiation because the hole of the ozone layer, so skin cancer and eye problems have increased somehow.
 
The problems that are comming are a lot more risky than those. Global warming could produce widespread famine and even the flooding of certain countries like Holland and Bangladesh. Mass migration of people escaping death will spread the dissaster worldwide.
 
Perhaps it is time to colaborate, and get rid of oil as soon as possible. We should get serious about that.
 
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  Quote pekau Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 30-Jan-2007 at 23:19
US industry's lifeline is oil. Without oil, US economy would die. Yes, the technology is improving so that we could use alternative resources... but it would take so much time, and it would be expensive as well. Imagine getting all the machines run by oil just in US, and replace them with solar power machines..? Imagine the number, time and cost? And I am just talking about US. Think of this as an international scale. Holy crap, it would easily dwarf trillion dollars. If your idea is put to effect, Pinguin, it would be the biggest financial project ever seen in modern history of mankind.
 
Besides... you think Middle East countries, as well as other nations rich in oil, will take that? They want their oil in business... and will do anything to maintain oil as the main resource for running machines. Imagine Saudi Arabia without oil... they won't be wealthy anymore...
 
Though oil is running out, we still have enough to sustain the world economy for a decade or so. That's a lot of money we are talking about. Oil industry will make sure that they sell most of the remaining oil reserve, if not all, to max. the profit.
     
   
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  Quote Top Gun Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 31-Jan-2007 at 11:46
we are oil adicted and countries like venezuela and Iran keep us Oil adicted just for the sake of their pockets.
then there is that trick to make old oil more expensive then new oil those bastards are very clever
they don't want any changes
WHE and others are going to die on this way
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  Quote pekau Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 31-Jan-2007 at 19:25

Innocents are first casualty of war... I should know, everytime my parents fill up the gas in gas station...

     
   
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Blame the US administrations such that as of Bush who don't want changes but start wars to keep the lifeline going. EU has started to tackle the problem but US is still nowhere near the beginning of the solution. I fear tho, that it won't matter as India and China are going to be dependent on it.
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  Quote pekau Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 31-Jan-2007 at 20:55
I honestly think that everyone would prefer oil, except of some scientists and environmental organizations.
     
   
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