In his book Oil Apocalypse, Vernan Coleman says 'the world you know is going to change dramatically and permanently. Anyone under fifty, with a normal life expectation, will live to see a world almost unrecognisable from the one they grew up in. Five billion people will die within a very short time. There will be no cars, no lorries, no buses, no aeroplanes and no supermarkets. The rich will travel by horse and cart, the middle classes will use bicycles. The poor will walk. The oil is running out and a a result, our civilisation is reaching its end....The disaster inexorably heading our way will make any natural disaste, any tsunami, seem inconsequential. Forget global warming, forget terrorism. They are trivial problems.
If he is right - what would you do to survive?
I might be a nutter for believing that this is going to happen - the signs are that it has started already but if I'm not and he is right, how bad could it get?
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