Reply #100: You have offered good information on why a total

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die-off of all of mankind and society will not occur. However, you have not offered anything to back this statement : Will there a be a mass die-off from severe economic displacements? Almost certainly not. Absolutely nothing you said supports this idea. Will there be new sources of energy? Sure, of course. But they will become more cost effective only because the cost of oil goes up. So the choice will become more costly oil or more costly other sources of energy. Either way it will cost more in inputs to maintain society than it does now. That means higher prices for consumers. How many live at the poverty level right now and how will those people survive once the prices go up? They won't survive. Unless you think there will suddenly be a massive, spontaneous restructuring of society and its economy. If you really think that the corporate world and current economic systems that can barely see past the next quarter are going to solve this major problem you are deluding yourself.