I wonder how they can breathe with their heads buried that deep in the sand (or shoved that far up their butts).
I just spent half an hour cluing up a co-worker about the clusterfuck. He's already seen one of my earlier talks about Peak Oil, but when I laid out the whole thing for him he looked a little shell-shocked.
- Agricultural yields in Africa may decline 30% by 2050 due to climate change.
- Average per capita GDP in Africa may decline 70% by 2050 due to energy shortages.
- Africa imports 25% of their calories.
- Africa's population is projected to double by 2050.
- World fertilizer prices may increase 20x by 2050.
- The world's total GDP is $64 trillion, but the derivatives market has a paper value of $700 trillion - 11x the whole world's annual income.
- Unconstrained global biofuel production is into the hyper-acceleration regime of a sigmoid curve.
- The world oil export market could be empty by 2040.
- The biomass of prey fish in Lake Michigan is down 92% since 1989.
- The ocean fisheries are crashing.
- The peat bogs are melting.
- The polar ice cap, the Greenland ice cap and WAIS are all crashing.
- Renewables are making no inroads into coal use.
What we need is electric cars in America. that'll fix it...