It's Coming Soon

I heard something on the radio yesterday (wish I could remember exactly what) that greatly accelerated the schedule for running out of fossil fuels, a very scary thought for a society that is so dependent on them. Two thoughts came to my mind.

The whole geo-political landscape would look so different without oil. Countries like Saudi Arabia which have become world powers because of it would simply revert to being deserts again. A powerful leverage would be gone, probably promoting a whole new set of countries that had whatever took its place.

My second thought was one of hope that someone smarter than I am is working on a plan for what happens when the last oil well runs dry. I’m assuming this isn’t going to happen overnight. So we need some sort of orderly shift to another technology if we are to survive.

I postulated some bizarre scenarios as the solution. What if someone came up with a way we could run our cars on the sewage we produce every day in our own homes? What if there was a way to extract power from the air around us? I’m counting on some genius to come through in time to save our civilization.

I suppose doom and gloom has been around since the beginning of time. 1984 passed and the world didn’t come to an end. We will undoubtedly get beyond this dilemma as well. But the stakes are very high if we do not.