Recently ran across this. (http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMTYyNDgxNjgw.html)
It's a sort of docudrama about the life of a fictional person born in 2009, about how climate change is going to cause drought, famine, pandemics, eventually leading to a total collapse of all civilization and a new dark age with everyone living in medieval like conditions.
Frankly so much of it smacked of fear mongering. I recognized a couple of the experts they brought in, namely Howard "Y2K" (http://kunstler.com/mags_y2k.html) Kunstler and Richard "Pol Pot" (http://peakoildebunked.blogspot.com/2007/12/318-richard-pol-pot-heinberg.html) Heinberg. Both of these clowns are well known for Peak Oil doom mongering and making all kinds of bogus predictions (http://peakoildebunked.blogspot.com/2007/12/325-jim-kunstler-worlds-****tiest.html) and disbelief in any sort of new technology or investment in existing alternatives to fossil fuel based transit (http://peakoildebunked.blogspot.com/2006/07/308-review-of-powerdown-by-richard.html). Personally I don't think the end is nigh and while there certainly are challenges, thankfully we have the industrial capability and the capital to build stuff like desalinization and water pipes for the southwestern cities, medicine and medical procedures to limit the potential death toll from pandemics, etc, etc. The whole fights over gasoline thing in the next 10 years? Electric cars are becoming available now, as well as electric agricultural machinary (http://peakoildebunked.blogspot.com/2007/12/317-electric-agricultural-machinery.html). I think you see where I'm going with with, we already have most of the solutions, it's just a question of economics. If there are gas shortages, then people will switch to electric. Simple as that.
Recently ran across this. (http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMTYyNDgxNjgw.html)
It's a sort of docudrama about the life of a fictional person born in 2009, about how climate change is going to cause drought, famine, pandemics, eventually leading to a total collapse of all civilization and a new dark age with everyone living in medieval like conditions.
Frankly so much of it smacked of fear mongering. I recognized a couple of the experts they brought in, namely Howard "Y2K" (http://kunstler.com/mags_y2k.html) Kunstler and Richard "Pol Pot" (http://peakoildebunked.blogspot.com/2007/12/318-richard-pol-pot-heinberg.html) Heinberg. Both of these clowns are well known for Peak Oil doom mongering and making all kinds of bogus predictions (http://peakoildebunked.blogspot.com/2007/12/325-jim-kunstler-worlds-****tiest.html) and disbelief in any sort of new technology or investment in existing alternatives to fossil fuel based transit (http://peakoildebunked.blogspot.com/2006/07/308-review-of-powerdown-by-richard.html). Personally I don't think the end is nigh and while there certainly are challenges, thankfully we have the industrial capability and the capital to build stuff like desalinization and water pipes for the southwestern cities, medicine and medical procedures to limit the potential death toll from pandemics, etc, etc. The whole fights over gasoline thing in the next 10 years? Electric cars are becoming available now, as well as electric agricultural machinary (http://peakoildebunked.blogspot.com/2007/12/317-electric-agricultural-machinery.html). I think you see where I'm going with with, we already have most of the solutions, it's just a question of economics. If there are gas shortages, then people will switch to electric. Simple as that.
Nice to know all the 1st world top tier nations have their escape plan. To bad for all the high population poor countries though that really haven't been contributing to a potential ecological crisis but won't have the resources to cope :P