Friday 20 March 2009

adapt or die? Humans or dinosapiens?

This is a maxim from Darwin that was intended for animals. Unfortunately, it will also apply to humans, if it hasn't already been used to excuse the deaths of billions of poor.
How will mankind live through this economic crisis?
How will it live through the coming environmental juggernaut?
Are you consuming less now. Are you recycling more? Are you driving less?
I don't think anybody will be willing to stop consuming altogether, and go back to subsistence farming.
The oil and gas exist. If the world doesn't use every last drop, then I don't know what I'm talking about.
The question is, if we use it all within 50 years, what will it do to the world. Will we need oil reserves to run the things that will save us from the environmental hell that I foresee?