Just did a google search of Hitler and peak oil and it is striking how little has changed, Germany still imports energy from overseas and a key importer is Russia. When Hitler was around it was Stalin, now it is Putin.
When Germany began to work to produce synthetic fuel, they thought oil reserves around the world were about exhausted. They were 60 or more years early in their assessment of world oil reserves. Now, however, it appears that world oil reserves are declining much more rapidly than new reserves are added and the end of the oil age can be predicted with increasing accuracy.
Appears that WW2 was driven by a false peak oil fear by the Nazi leadership! History still surprises me!
Peace always has been and always will be an intermittent flash of light in a dark history of warfare, violence, and destruction
I'm working on a game that 'simulates' the impacts of peak oil currently there is no option to go to war with other nations, only to adapt each contries power plants before oil runs out..
Would it be more realistic if you could wage war on other countries to gain more oil?
Arowx wrote:I'm working on a game that 'simulates' the impacts of peak oil currently there is no option to go to war with other nations, only to adapt each contries power plants before oil runs out..
Would it be more realistic if you could wage war on other countries to gain more oil?
It's a humanitarian game, one where you are attempting to save a species from self induced extinction.
Lot's of games exclude war, direct conflict where pieces are permanently removed from the game, the games tend to have victory conditions or a race condition.
I tried adapting the rules of risk so that oil reserves were only generated in certain countries and oil was needed to create armies, but that just becomes a no-win game, we all lose eventually if we fight over fewer and fewer resources.
It's also a great way to see why the Iraq war happened. ;o)
"Investment will decline and debt service will be challenged, leading to a crash in financial markets, accompanied by a loss of trust in currencies and a break-up of value and supply chains – because trade is no longer possible. This would in turn lead to the collapse of economies, mass unemployment, government defaults and infrastructure breakdowns, ultimately followed by famines and total system collapse"
