The next added 100 million Americans

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I guess this guy is some rightwinger but what he has to say about peak oil is interesting..

We used energy from the wind, sun, animals and rivers for centuries. Two hundred years ago, we became addicted to finite oil. “We have unintentionally created a trap for ourselves,” Goodstein said. “If we turn to coal and natural gas, the resultant increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide may make Earth uninhabitable. Even if human life does go on, civilization as we know it will not survive, unless we can find a way to live without fossil fuels.”

World oil extraction expects to peak in a decade. Goodstein, ever precise in his research, shows that those hoping for other fuels and substitutes to replace oil dangle their hopes by hanging from a thread over a cliff with no net or parachute. Societies as large as humans have created based on oil, cannot—and will not--survive.

Even if huge oil deposits are discovered, it won’t help much. Our expanding populations gobble them up. China stands on the verge of an industrial revolution of proportions based on 1.3 billion people. They expect to place a car in every Chinaman’s garage. With our 300 million Americans using 20 million barrels of oil daily, you’re talking four times that amount in China. If you look at the growth rates of 2.1 billion added to the planet by mid century, oil reserves don’t stand a chance. We’re all screwed, or, at least our children are screwed!

We can deny, bury our heads or pretend it’s not coming, but the end of this Age of Oil threatens our civilization. It’s coming as surely as the tsunami that hit Sri Lanka; it’s as certain as Katrina hitting New Orleans.

http://www.newswithviews.com/Wooldridge/frosty202.htm

We cannot deny and bury our heads but that is exactly what most people will do until the end..