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No More Overseas Travel? - Running out of oil? 3-Nov-2007 At 11:59:43 AM Take!

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Its great to read that people are interested and actively throwing these ideas around. IT doesn't suprise me that its people on a climbing forum.
Another good book on the future of the world without cheap oil is "The Long Emergency" by a bloke called Kunstler (spelling?). He examines how different areas of our life might be changed.
Though i'm a fan of George Monbiot's work ('The Age of Consent' was a great read) its important to remember that he is pushing many barrows so he may be down on certain fuel technologies as they don't head in his preferred direction for society.

The simple fact is that the world can't support this many of us. The host will die if there are too many parasites.
I was told the other day that my choice to not have kids was very selfish.
This got me to thinking and, as far as the future of the world goes, I reckon having a kid in a wealthy westernised society is possibly the most selfish thing you can do.
There are already enough people in the world today, why not support some of the existing ones instead of falling prey to the need for ownership and having my own. After all, in the era of human devolution isn't it more important that our healthy memes be passed on, rather than our dubious genes?