World Population Growth Chart:
Oil Production Peak, by Nation:
The Energy Plateau (notice how it coincides with population explosion):
Fifty Years of Rising Oil Demand:
Fall Off of New Oil Discoveries:
Summing it All Up:
Final note:
The Age of Oil coincides with the adoption, in Europe and America, of welfare states - and of post-colonial "People's Republics" in Africa, Asia and South America. The dismantling of those same states has proceeded, at pace with oil peak.
4 comments:
Wait, we have a welfare state? I thought we had a "fuck you buddy I got mine" state.
Yeah, Alan - I think the US qualifies as a liberal welfare state, being dismantled.
It's not and never has been on par with the European version, but the American liberal welfare state (which has always also been a petroleum war state) has existed since the peak of US population, following the first oil boom.
It was liberal welfare state, or the Wobblies.
Roosevelt got a disciplinary state in working order, pretty rapidly.
But, to pivot around and back you up, the liberal welfare state has really just taken the "fuck you, I got mine" and dumped its shit all over brown people, outside its arbitrary borders, and within.
Despite Tea Party, Republican and New Dem rhetoric, those borders are kaput in the social sense, however useful as a way to capture people, judicially.
Which means the FYIGM is coming home to roost, and the captive capitalist unions are about to get their final busting...
Damn. Thanks, Jack. Everyone needs to see this.
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