this guy needs to realize not all work (in fact not any real significant work) is done from a computer moving decimals around trying to fuck people out of money. the work done that keeps this country and economy moving is industrial work, manufacturing, farming, etc. – show me how to stay home and do this from my fucking house!

Anyone notice how long it has been?

DE-urbanization? Urban centers are the most efficient way of living we know of, it’s the suburbs that are so bad. City life requires far less energy per capita. Food can be grown just outside of the city I think re urbanization will be the trend for this century if we don’t blow ourselves up.

Priority one is clean water, if that business is self sufficiently powered, then the worst part is over. Otherwise people will have to move away from their homes in search of it. Second would be food. Having national announcements to make your own garden that can feed and sustain your family. De-urbanisation, breaking down parts of the city not used and make it a local food plantation for gardenless housing. Then heating for the housing. The rest is just luxury.

Even with an all out, WW2 style effort (putting every resource the country has into the problem), it will take decades for a transition and cost trillions of dollars. America simply doesn’t have that kind of money and we are borrowing beyond control for other thins right now. NOTHING is going to even begin until a major shock hits the country,

Efficiency of renewable energy is becoming a luxury. If we don’t mass produce these things NOW…it’ll be too late.
Compare it to WW2 …the germans made the very first jet engine fighter, a truelly magnificent piece of engineering and aviation, and it would dominate the skies. However it was near the end of the war, and too late to make a difference.

Peak oil may make climate change worse. We could run low on oil and then fire up coal liquification and use more tar sands . . . both more CO2 intensive. :-/
We need to move transportation to electricity and go nuclear, wind, and solar.

thid stuff is so much more compelling that climate change- it is coming from a man who you can trust and he is well respected within the business community and his numbers are transparent— i keep banging on about how climate change is sucking all the oxygen from the very serious threats we face from the nature Matt is talking about here….. Even though he is going on about the worst case scenario – it is wise to understand that these scenarios are on the table! just wild!!!!

@Flagstaff12 I agree- the find it increasingly frustrating that climate change is sucking all the oxygen out of the space to really get across the implication around peak oil. I hope the hell matt is wrong about the potential for how quickly this could all unravel. this is scary stuff cheers

Even if true, human caused climate change is irrelevant. Peak oil is the real challenge facing the human race. Sky high oil price will do more for the environment than emmisions cuts will ever do.