[Deo volente]

I recall reading these books as a young, ignorant college student. They were all the rage back then. In addition, my Dad worked for an oil company so that made things a bit more tense than usual. He thought the whole thing was nonsense. He was right of course.

[GOPJ]

The report states we have only about twenty more years of oil out there, we are already at peak oil, which will then start to go downhill and the wells will run dry no matter how much we scramble to get more. There will be a final rush to pump one more drop of oil even if at the cost of twenty dollars a gallon, but that in turn will accelerate the depletion into a death spiral. Natural gas will not save us, as we turn to that source as oil runs out, we’ll deplete that as well. Again, a death spiral. Climate is the big one this report. Despite our feeble efforts to address the radical changes already taking place, the disaster will explode within ten to fifteen years, due in large part to the depletion of farmlands worldwide from the use of toxic chemical fertilizers and pesticides, soil exhaustion, and encroaching urban population. The results: famine, disease, and mass starvation then triggering political instability in which hundreds of millions will die.

Prognostications from over 50 years ago - from the same types of hysterics we see today - the 'Club of Rome' ...

We were blessed there were some people smart enough to see this crap was insane.. my father was in that group too.