[via The Global Sociology Blog]

This video is an excellent overview, but it isn't flawless, and it doesn't cover everything. For instance, it's oversimplistic -- to say the least -- when the creator(s) suggest that there are only two future scenarios for us to choose between.

For a much more comprehensive overview of where we might end up in the future, see Heinberg's book PowerDown. (I highly recommend that book -- and others that Heinberg has written in recent years -- but I don't mean to suggest that all of the answers can be found there, or in any other set of books or videos for that matter.)

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Related writing from Richard Heinberg -
"The Dress Rehearsal Is Over"

"As oil crosses $100 on its way south, not even a hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico and a statement from OPEC that the cartel will cut production by over 500,000 barrels per day seems capable of halting the bloodletting"...

... "Wasn’t the price of oil supposed to rise endlessly? Wasn’t the world supposed to end by now? What happened? What does it all mean?" ...

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Toban Black
(http://tobanblack.net/blog/?p=638)