PowerSwitch

Could it be that Malthus and his theories about maximum populations were correct? Many of his theories have been discredited because oil saved the day and agri-business allowed ever increasing populations to survive thanks to intensive use of the land with fertilisers, powerful machines and the abil...

There's no doubt that our present economy is built on oil. So what would the economy look like without oil? Could a modern economy mutate to function without oil? It would certainly look very different from today's economy. Today, what's valued takes forgranted that oil is readily available. But if ...

It seems to me that as oil becomes scarcer the way to travel will be using sail power. What better way could there be to travel long distances at quite high speeds? Sailing boats may have to be commandeered so that rather than being the play things of the rich they are used to transport things usefu...