RE: So what now do we do?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Walter Hicks [mailto:wallyshoes@mindspring.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2003 12:19 AM
> Hello guys and gals.
>
> You know, I am not one of the theologians -- or even a person of worldwide
> fame like Glenn Morton, etc.
>
> I am just a "rock thrower " at best. At times I think about stopping all
> posts and becoming a simple Lurker.
>
> (All those who wish to vote for such, please let me know off line.)
>
> Meanwhile, I worry about what all this means to the next generation.
>
> My granddaughter is 15 years old and she thinks that all these
> predictions of
> "gloom and doom" are misstated by a bunch of old F-rts who don't know what
> technology will bring.
>
> Let's suppose that she is wrong.
>
> What do we do to prepare that generation for what is to come. Glennn's
> wishful thinking about fusion reactors is not going to work, so
> it is back
> to nature.
>
> Now is that all so bad?
>
> We survived for up to the last hundred without all that oil.
>
> So is the Christian issue to see what we do without Glenn's supply of oil?
>
> Or not ??????
>

First, I am not of worldwide fame. Howard van Till is the truly famous guy
on this list. Secondly to the point of your post. Natural gas will take
the place of some oil for a while. There is much investment going on now in
LNG so that the gas can become a global commodity. But that will only work
for a while and it will make us dependent upon places like Russia with all
those consequences. I am undecided whether coal will make a comeback.
Britain shut down the last deep coal mine while I lived there. Once filled
with water (which probably took a week), it will be impossible to reopen. I
have heard reports that by 2040 it will take more energy to mine the coal
the US has than we will get out of it. That will end the coal age here. Past
that point, the issues for the Christian (assuming that nuclear and fusion
hasn't come on line by then) will be how to manage in a starving world.
Without petroleum and natural gas manufactured fertilizers, yields per acre
will plummet. North Korea is starving largely because they can't get natural
gas with which to manufacture fertilizer which means their yields dropped.

I suspect eventually (assuming no fusion) that we will slowly revert to life
as it is now in Cuba or North Korea. And with starving millions, despots
will arise.
Received on Tue Dec 2 07:19:11 2003