I think that if we were facing such an imminent and catastrophic collapse world governments wouldn't be so complacent. There would be moves being made to secure

I think that if we were facing such an imminent and catastrophic collapse world governments wouldn't be so complacent. There would be moves being made to secure each countries future. I mean the main job of the CIA etc is to predict and stay on top of such trends. Also in such a scenario I would expect countries like Saudi Arabia to curtail their own exports and start preserving it for their own needs. The day you see that happen you can rest assured that we're in deep trouble. The actions of the Chinese govt are also interesting to observe. They've been buying up oil around the world but haven't really being attempting to engineer a paradigm shift in their energy policy. We have endless summits on climate change and such but not even a single global summit on such an important issue. The govts of the world maybe incompetent but I would like to believe that they arent incompetent to this scale. So the gist of my point is that we might be facing some difficult times ahead but not an outright collapse.