Oil will run out this century

OP, your outlook on life is very bleak. Even if we run out of oil why do you think we'll just plummet into chaos? We still have electricity. I cant even think of anything we use oil for other than for transport.

OP, your outlook on life is very bleak. Even if we run out of oil why do you think we'll just plummet into chaos? We still have electricity. I cant even think of anything we use oil for other than for transport.

Then we need to start using less of it, for example, by using less technology and actually getting off our arses and doing things manually.

Stop being lazy, come over here and say that to my face

Hmm?

The gist of your post was to stop using tech and getting of our asses to do things manually..
So...

You'll have to tell me where you live first, then

Easy girl. Lets not ruin the mystery

If you're eager I'm in a Nintendo Cartridge. I'll be waiting for you to come play me

****ing hell, that got sleazy quickly

Well then, how am I supposed to tell you manually?

Hmmpf.

Can you give this guy a virtual blowjob elsewhere please? This is about oil. Not lonely people.

Would't mind seeing some proper up to date papers on how much oil is actually left. I can remember seeing text books in school that said oil would have run out by 2030. Is it actually confirmed we have hit peak oil?

Can you give this guy a virtual blowjob elsewhere please? This is about oil. Not lonely people.

Oil won't run out this century, and neither will coal, natural gas etc. New fossil fuel reserves are being discovered all the time, as well as new technologies being developed to exploit reserves that were previously unusable.

The issue is that just because they're there, it doesn't mean we should use them. We could go on relying on fossil fuels for centuries to come, but by then we will have changed the world to a point where life as we know it will have changed beyond any chance of reverse. (I won't go into the whole climate change scenario, I think most people know it by now).

That's why not much annoys me more than people who object to switching to renewables now - a common argument is that it can be done in 50 years, basically making it the next generation's problem to deal with. Most of these people understand that it will have to be done at some stage, so why not sooner, to make the damage done as little as possible? At some point we'll have to put up 'unsightly' wind farms, invest in renewables, and deal with the slight, short-lived downturn in individual nation's economies that this may or not cause - does it not make sense to do it now?

What the!! Who said anything about a 'virtual blowjob'!

You were almost led into the woods by the strange sweaty man with chocolate. Think again.

Overpopulation seems to be the root of the problem. If we executed everyone in China and India we could significantly reduce the earth's population. Of course it's impractical, but conceptually I feel the idea has some merit.

So genocide is the answer then yeah? Why are they the ones who have to die and not you and me?

Overpopulation seems to be the root of the problem. If we executed everyone in China and India we could significantly reduce the earth's population. Of course it's impractical, but conceptually I feel the idea has some merit.