Reply #71: Nostalgia doesn't feed people

[Boomer]

Of course there are ways to survive without oil through time-tested technologies of the past...but only if you revert to the population levels of that past time as well.

The problem is that our current population numbers are sustained by an unprecedented level of agribusiness production AND distribution, all of which is based on the availability of cheap and plentiful oil. Since oil is a non-renewable resource, and one which we're using at ever increasing rates, we're relying on a pyramid scheme for our very survival.

Eventually all pyramid schemes collapse, as will our system of food production and distribution when oil rises in price and availability is limited. Some people will be able to develop viable alternatives, but not nearly as many people as will need them to stop from starving to death.

Add a global warming/impending ice age pressures to the ecosystem and the equation becomes even more unstable.