Mass murder - neo-con solution to approaching peak oil
nessbit | 10.10.2005 14:02 | Analysis | Ecology | Globalisation
Peak oil is an unavoidable fact that is approaching fast - or is it. Do the neo-cons have a cunning plan to put off the inevitable?
There is only way to to delay peak oil and that is to reduce consumption.
There are two ways to reduce consumption. One is conservation, effeciency, and switching to renewables - all of which require a change in lifestyle and economic implications.
The other is to reduce the consumers.
The USA consumes over twice as much energy per head as does the UK and we're not exactly fugal. US consumption is 20 million barrel a day and rising. Their own reserves can supply only another four years worth, but they import 70% of their fuel - mostly from canada, norway, and central and south america. They also get some from the middle east put mostly the oil from there goes to Europe along with Russia and China.
How about allowing AIDS to run riot through poor countries? Well, what good would killing off peasants in Asia or Africa do? Not much, they don't really consume any significant quanities of oil and they work for peanuts and have no unions.
How about a nuclear war in the middle east? Well, thats cool but what about all that lovely oil? Iran alone has 10% of the worlds oil reserves. Anyway, these people don't consume much of it either, they mostly export so their dodgy leaders can make outrageous amounts of money.
No, if you want to cull the population to put off peak oil you need to look to the west where people squander vast amounts of oil and demand proper wages and perhaps even government welfare and health programs.
Europe would be good, they are getting to big for their boots with this euro thing and some evil countries like Venezuala, Iraq, Iran and Korea are even trading oil of euros instead of dollars these days.
But there is no way they could get away with that is there?
Heard the one about the bird flu that could wipe out 150 million people?
There are two ways to reduce consumption. One is conservation, effeciency, and switching to renewables - all of which require a change in lifestyle and economic implications.
The other is to reduce the consumers.
The USA consumes over twice as much energy per head as does the UK and we're not exactly fugal. US consumption is 20 million barrel a day and rising. Their own reserves can supply only another four years worth, but they import 70% of their fuel - mostly from canada, norway, and central and south america. They also get some from the middle east put mostly the oil from there goes to Europe along with Russia and China.
How about allowing AIDS to run riot through poor countries? Well, what good would killing off peasants in Asia or Africa do? Not much, they don't really consume any significant quanities of oil and they work for peanuts and have no unions.
How about a nuclear war in the middle east? Well, thats cool but what about all that lovely oil? Iran alone has 10% of the worlds oil reserves. Anyway, these people don't consume much of it either, they mostly export so their dodgy leaders can make outrageous amounts of money.
No, if you want to cull the population to put off peak oil you need to look to the west where people squander vast amounts of oil and demand proper wages and perhaps even government welfare and health programs.
Europe would be good, they are getting to big for their boots with this euro thing and some evil countries like Venezuala, Iraq, Iran and Korea are even trading oil of euros instead of dollars these days.
But there is no way they could get away with that is there?
Heard the one about the bird flu that could wipe out 150 million people?
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