Excluding the global warming thing, the end of fossil fuel will, I believe,
cause a die-off of sorts. Overall production and delivery of food won't
quite keep up to todays rate. And there will be those that cannot cope
without plastic this-and-that. Can't cope with or figure out alternatives.
Family sizes will shrink. I think then that world population will start a
decline. Hence, a so-called die-off.
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Hello Rob
The film is not predicting "die-off", it is predicting/describing a
probable coming change.
I wasn't talking about the film, and this below was a quote from a
previous message:
Are they starving? No. This has been going on for quite a while
now, but nobody seems to have noticed. Or very few anyway. So much
for "die-off" at the end of Big Oil.
This time round, it was quoted as part of a comment on another film,
Yank Tanks, mentioned by Kirk. The whole message is here:
http://wwia.org/pipermail/biofuel/Week-of-Mon-20050221/006287.html
[Biofuel] "End of Suburbia"
I said at the end:
Hm, fancy that - no massive die-off as predicted by the oil addicts
when cold turkey day finally comes round.
Whether or not "The End of Suburbia" mentions die-off, many other
people do in connection with "Oil depletion and the collapse of the
American Dream", including here, recently, and also off-list. It's
nonsense, as the film "Yank Tanks" apparently indicates, as well as
what I was saying about food supply in Cuba. As you say, more
sensible behaviour will simply become unavoidable. Perhaps above all
else, humans as a species are good at adapting, and adapt we will.
Meanwhile, so many of the people who talk about a massive die-off
with the end of (cheap) oil are still quibbling about or denying
global warming, caused mainly by cheap oil (and coal), which really
does threaten a massive die-off.
Apart from the insurance estimates I posted yesterday (see
<http://wwia.org/pipermail/biofuel/Week-of-Mon-20050221/006268.html>),
there's this, for instance:
Suffering progress
Rising global temperatures will result in 290 million more cases of
malaria worldwide
About 2.5 million premature deaths will occur every year in India
due to air emissions
Asthma, diarrhoea, dengue, cancer, malnutrition will burden public health
Climate change is bad news for global human health.
[more]
CSE- Health Environment Newsletter March-April 2003
http://infoarchive.net/sgroup/BIOFUEL/26715/
And much besides.
:-(
Regards
Keith
As I assume (yikes! ..pardon) most of us agree, long over due
changes such as organic farming, and resource conservation will
simply become unavoidable.
I guess another reason I like the film is simply because it exists
at all. While it may not address every aspect, consequence, or
possibility, this is the first film I have come across that even
breeches the issue, and really questions the sustainability of
suburban America.
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