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Ah yeah, who doesn’t remember the infamous famines and the collapse of police and industry in the U.S. during the oil crisis in the 70s.
by nautilius 5y ago
Ah yeah, who doesn’t remember the infamous famines and the collapse of police and industry in the U.S. during the oil crisis in the 70s.
- lenkite 5y agoThere was even a book authored on this "Eating Oil: Energy Use In Food Production" in that era that showed how reliant agriculture is on oil and how close the first world was to food crisis.
- nautilius 5y agoBut there wasn’t a food crisis. So if I understand you correctly, the economy is resilient enough for a sudden, externally imposed oil shortage, but if we decide it ourselves and give us a few years to prepare, the economy, and indeed society, will collapse?