/sci/ - Science & Math

You idiot! Climate change is linguistic manipulation. What’s really going on is peak oil and the extraction of finite resources.

You think there’s unlimited resources in the earth? hahahahahahahahaha

>>14607859
nigger, if peak oil is real and renewables and nuclear are as shit as they seem to be, 80-90% of the population will have to work in food production just to stay alive, AGI is the least of our problems

>>12169470
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox
There is always a way to spend more energy and get a benefit out of it. Waste is the perfect example of that. Humans will naturally revert to a higher energy expenditure if it was possible and feasible. For an example, you can have non-stop HVAC systems without people having to worry whether the window is open or not, like someone 100 years ago worried whether the lights are on during the day and people no longer do so. You can have much more demanding PC specs with higher surface area CPUs/GPUs and therefor a much greater demand for cooling and the electricity supply for the fans. You can have LED wallpapers. You can have LCD display wallpapers. You can have active sensors all over your house. 24/7 air filters in every room. You can have every person running a shitcoin miner for a couple thousand of extra income. This is all personal consumption. Let's check the business side: you can have a much greater coverage and feasibility of food delivery services. You can increase the feasibility of air travel and turn the police, medical and firefighting services into entirely helicopter-based. You can drop the transoceanic shipping cost and therefor open the gates to a new type of economy. You can cut the manufacturing cost of literally everything.

The demand for all of these things is right there. It's just that it's not economically feasible for the average Joe, which is what that chart shows. The average person's energy wealth grew throughout the early portion of that century with the introduction of induction motors. It reached the Malthusian stagnation in the 60s and 70s. From then onward, the only people whose energy wealth grows are the ones on the top while the bottom's decrease keeps the mean right in place as you can see in the chart. Because the means to produce energy cannot catch up with the demand from population growth and new generation cannot gain access to it like the old have.

What happened to Peak Oil and why does nobody seem to talk about it or care much about it anymore?

Also, do you think that USA will resist the next 20 years with the petrol crisis that will come ?