andrew-l wrote:Interesting how it conflicts with the depopulation required by resource and Climate Change constraints.
No it doesn't -- your missing the dynamic link between adaptive evolution and niche ecology.
My kids, to some extent but certainly to an extent greater than many, should be able to look after themselves. A lot of the kids they go to school with, and who regard my kids as "weird" because they can cook and go for walks to find food, will not. Therefore, in the clear Darwinian definition, the kids of serious Peak Oilers are likely to be more "well adapted" to their environment than most others, and so they are more likely to survive; they won't (hopefully!) be part of the depopulation cohort in the contraction of the human species back to a sustainable level.
In a small country like ours, I don't think it will be possible to have people starving living mere miles away from people who aren't - not without a great deal of trouble.
I wish your children well (I don't have any of my own so I'm not in competition with you ), but I think there is more to adaptability than knowing how to catch rabbits. Being a homicidal muscle-bound brute without a conscience, for example, is likely to serve one equally well.
"We're just waiting, looking skyward as the days go down / Someone promised there'd be answers if we stayed around."
andrew-l wrote:Interesting how it conflicts with the depopulation required by resource and Climate Change constraints.
No it doesn't -- your missing the dynamic link between adaptive evolution and niche ecology.
My kids, to some extent but certainly to an extent greater than many, should be able to look after themselves. A lot of the kids they go to school with, and who regard my kids as "weird" because they can cook and go for walks to find food, will not. Therefore, in the clear Darwinian definition, the kids of serious Peak Oilers are likely to be more "well adapted" to their environment than most others, and so they are more likely to survive; they won't (hopefully!) be part of the depopulation cohort in the contraction of the human species back to a sustainable level.
In a small country like ours, I don't think it will be possible to have people starving living mere miles away from people who aren't - not without a great deal of trouble.
I wish your children well (I don't have any of my own so I'm not in competition with you ), but I think there is more to adaptability than knowing how to catch rabbits. Being a homicidal muscle-bound brute without a conscience, for example, is likely to serve one equally well.
In Mumbai, where I am now I have seen people starving mere inches away from people who aren't. In fact the thickness of the glass of a car window.
Just today 4 people were arrested for consuming the half burnt body of a corpse they had stolen from the crematorium. I read this in the local paper over breakfast at the hotel. Decent eggs but slow service..
), but I think there is more to adaptability than knowing how to catch rabbits. Being a homicidal muscle-bound brute without a conscience, for example, is likely to serve one equally well.