What does a POST-Peak Oil world look like?

I remember being in grade 8 and suspecting that the sustainable population was pre industrialisation.

People don't realize how much oil we are spending to get a barrel. The ratio is 6/7-1.

Hi Bill, great insights - been searching for something like this - your outcomes are similar to mine, good work and all the best

Wow man I found your video because Ive been suspecting the same thing...I remember Micheal Ruppert talking about this years ago... I'm thinking, they shot down the Green New deal and pulled some Psy-ops to get it done anyway

I don't think it's a "cover", but the early stages of resource shortages and lower EROEI feedback loops are starting to affect prices, at the same time while other things are happening in the world. Lower EROEI has been having an effect for probably over 20 years.

We have a 'whatabout' problem. In fact, this whole topic is sort of peripheral to humanity's (main) problem. Ideas like this one should be non-controversial. Mining a finite supply ends up yielding a production bell-curve every time. What's the impediment to understanding here? It's as though we're in some sort of mass delusion, where nobody wants to believe that our wasteful dream vacation has to end. Again, an oil peak isn't really what we're discussing here, is it? Behind the curtain, it's life quality that we're looking at. We'd be able to keep using our battery-operated toys for longer IF there weren't so many of us trying to play in the sandbox here. Numerically, the proximate cause of any large-scale resource depletion is not the strength of appetite for that resource, so much as it is the number of mouths that seek to satiate. Thus, it's difficult for me to see an oil-depletion curve as anything but a population problem; any other interpretation of it seems euphemistic, distractive, and/or downright misleading. Why is is so hard for us to admit that we're overpopulated? Mention Malthus or Ehrlich, and watch as the optimists' stones are hurled: They were wrong! Whatabout innovation! Humans will adapt! ~as the satellite imagery of the Earth gently loses its green.

Very interesting but also very depressing.

The Mariner is critical to fracking in PA - when will people see it

#DrillAntarctica

Glut is because of fracking even when losing money (it has always lost money!), and because of the weak global economy.

Plenty of oil left, just running out of cheap oil

That's very good content out there and yes, there all sorts of reason to think (if one cares and have the guts to think about it) that this it really is a plandemic. I wouldn't agree though with the number you gave as how many people the planet can sustain in a post peak-oil world. As you know very well, peak oil does not mean that there is not going to be oil anymore but that the demand for it will out-strip the supply. Even if fossil fuels will be problematic there will still be pockets where it will go on maybe even just to finance the "renewables". Also, to be realistic and have a bigger vieew, we need to factor in likely wars over these resources as over water or other very important minerals as long as those will be needed. My guess is that there will be a die-off but I don't think of the proportions you are saying and certainly will not be immediate. Nobody really knows though how it will play out, we only know that ecological devastation, climate change and peak everything are going to be a nightmare for a big part, maybe the majority, of humans living on earth right now. I hope this was a constructive comment. In any case my congratulations for the synthesis and the courage to put it out there. Salvatore from Italy

Good podcast, but that intro noise was godawful. Now, peak oil is a dead idea. Oil is going to be replaced by wind and solar and thorium plants within the next 30 years. Oil is expensive and wasteful, where most of its energy is wasted through heat that goes into the air when burned in an inefficient thermal engine such as an internal combustion engine or turbine. While diesels and gasoline engines have maximum thermal efficiency of under 50%, and is usually much lower than that, electric engines are well over 85% efficient and usually much more than that. So moving away from fossil fuels is great for the world in the long run. Oil was good (for the economy) back in the 1930s when it flowed up from the ground, but these days you have to put a huge amount of money and energy into getting a barrel of oil out of the ground. And then we waste it into waste heat. Hopefully more of the worlds transport will move over to battery powered solutions ASAP, and then we can use oil for aviation and farming untill we can move that over to sustainable solutions too. Cheers.