Is "Civilization's golden era is teetering on collapse"?

Question

"The period from 1950 to 2000 will be remembered as the Golden Era of modern civilization, the pinnacle reached by humans after a million years of evolution. This brilliant half-century was sponsored largely by fossil fuels, especially oil, which brought unprecedented economic growth, plentiful transportation and a rich and diverse lifestyle.

But the new millennium has brought the end of cheap oil, and civilization is suddenly teetering on the edge of collapse."

Vancouver Sun June 28, 2008

http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/story.html?id=2eeece50-285f-4c4b-bb37-2d053d04d4e8&p=1

Answer 1

It is a tragic view of things. Humans have had worse crisis and it did over it. When the human were a beast it did not live in civilizations; was civilization one of fact that gave to primitive the elements which show today. Civilization was before oil, the human had living with out oil but it can not live with out civilization.

Answer 2

It certainly is...

- No more middle class

- Turning food into fuel

- Major natural resources almost gone

- Huge relocations of populations due to flood, famines, fires, global warming

- Major populations unable to afford health care, which means plagues, epidemics, new diseases from other parts of the world.

- Major economies collapsing

- Major problems being able to affordably transport food and goods to purchasers

- Education becoming unaffordable for all but the rich

What to look forward to:

- More wars over energy

- Wars over food

- Wars over natural resources

- Wars over livable land

- The rich profiting over the wars, while the poor die and starve

It was ice while it lasted.  Who would have thought it would end so fast? And largely brought about by one man: GWB