/sci/ - Science & Math

>>8497411
Peak conventional has already happened in 2012. Sure tar goo will help ease the downslope as will natural gas. Probably will be more dams and nuke plants built. Overall by the end of this century there will either be as many or more people living in absolute poverty, filth and misery or a lot less people living under a totalitarian world police state controlling all energy possibly through some draconian carbon rationing program. These would be best case scenarios though, in all likelihood there will be much war, pestilence and disease on top of energy depletion and the new dark ages as religion and occult control of it is already on the rise again. The enlightenment was so long ago...

Peak oil:
>If nothing is done, our civilization will go bye bye within the next 70-100 years, and there will be MAJOR economic problems and meltdowns within 20-50 years
>Almost no attention paid to by the media.
>Nobody cares, even though it has a strong possibility of affecting them when they're alive.

Global warming:
>Catastrophic consequences won't begin within about 200-300 years from now
>There would be increased climate catastrophe incidence (tornadoes, floods, etc), but this is nothing compared with the peak oil
>Lots of attention paid to by the media and by the people, entire movements dedicated to trying to solve it
>Most people alive today won't be affected by the global warming significantly at all

Why? I think we should solve both the global warming and the peak oil, but we should pay FAR more attention to the peak oil issue. About 20-30 times more attention than to the global warming.

>>3128902
>derp herp global warming is the only reason to move away from oil as an energy source
>I have dicks in my ass