whether it's weather

WHETHER IT’S WEATHER
I have a lot of respect for our boy over at www.americanenergycrisis.blogspot.com . I think I’m at least slightly outclassed in intelligence in comparison. I’m sure that after a side by side IQ test, I would be hauled away on the short bus. So I can’t just say I’m right and he’s wrong regarding the future. If you remember back to the last article on whether doomers wish for a collapse, I first brought up my disagreement with his conclusions. I think that rather than one side ( for the love of all that’s holy and just, we’re all going to die immediately!! ) or the other ( all is calm, do not stampede, western civilization will not implode!! ) being correct, we can just look at it from two different perspectives. Of course, secretly, deep down, I know I’m always right and rest of you suck my butt, but I’m struggling to stay logical here. His latest post pretty much dismisses peak energy as a concern for agriculture and says that the weather is what is going to be the wild card. I don’t disagree with that. Weather has been super freaky lately. What I don’t agree with is the disregard given Peak Oil.
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Let me make this pretty plain. It’s all about energy. So, even though weather is going to play havoc with our food supply, its effects would not be as severe if we still had an energy surplus. In essence, we both agree about future problems. I’m convinced we are all going to die a horrible and elongated death. He thinks we will adjust downward from a consumer society and prance gaily amongst the organically grown orchards, singly the praises of Obammy and his ass whore Al Gore. Thank you for saving us po white folk massa by making it too expensive to drive to a job because of carbon taxes. But before I get too worked up about the future, let’s go strolling down history lane. In the past food shortages, famine and severe weather were eased by energy surplus. One part of the globe fed the other part after food shortages. WWI Europe, WWII Europe, Africa back when we the Soviets and Americans were trying to bribe their leaders. Plenty of times there was nothing to eat and plenty of times the food came rolling in from elsewhere ( Dust Bowl and 70’s droughts included ) . Now, granted, population pressures play a role in surplus energy and food. But surplus energy helped grow those numbers in the first place.
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I also understand that we are pretty much in the middle of a global drought ( or at least were ). So one country feeding a lot of others might be hindered. But given enough energy, the crisis becomes a lot more manageable and less severe. We won’t even get into if the burning of all the fuel led to the severe weather of today. It’s enough to focus on how what worked in the past won’t work in the future. Because we don’t have the surplus oil we used to have. Less energy means weather effects are multiplied. As are population effects. Both of which played a role in decreasing our national food surpluses. The last thirty years of breathing room were because of the last untapped economical oil being sucked up quick. No saving grace there this time. And this time food problems will mean mass die off, because we have become so dependant on global food trade and artificial fertilizer. It is about the energy. And we are silly to think it will turn out okaly dokely.
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