Most of us here expect oil production to peak soon/already, but people still keep posting articles about the details of how/when that's happening.
Same thing with demand destruction, it's interesting to talk about how it may collapse. Zeihan details how different regions of the world will collapse at different rates and why.
I'm not saying people here didn't see this coming or this is all original, it's just interesting to me to see different takes on how it all falls down.
Zeihan wrote a book called, The End of the World Is Just the Beginning: Mapping the Collapse of Globalization.
The Reserve Growth Rulers (corporate-statist rulers of the USA that is)
are awfully incompetent at stalling or reversing that global climate change aren't they.
Most of the 30-deg F. high-temp abnormalities the other morning were within 5 latitude degrees of the Arctic Circle.
Arctic permafrost melting 70 years sooner than expected, study shows
https://weather.com/science/environment/news/2019-06-14-permafrost-melting-sooner
but you're right, Oil Industry Fan Club: "reserve growth rulez." There's nothing better for mucking-up your planet than reserve growth.
Were only at .85C and the methane is bubbling up faster and faster from the oceans floor and now we have giant methane sphincters exploding in the tundra. Nothing theoretical about that. Here is some more of the new normal. This is the 4th or 5th Once-in-1,000-Years Rain in just the last week. -http://mashable.com/2014/09/09/arizona-nevada-deadly-rains/?utm_cid=mash-com-Tw-main-link
There probably will be a die off of sorts. I mean, if people suddenly lose access to things like insulin that's a problem. The same goes for several other medications (blood pressure meds, antibiotics, vaccinations, etc.).
Typically during economic collapses the unemployment rate can be anywhere between ten and thirty percent, with people in their twenties and teens hit the hardest.
If you want an idea of what life might be like during a severe economic depression look into Argentina's default in the early 2000's. They are the best comparison to the U.S. since, while there are significant differences, they were a fairly well developed capitalist nation that has undergone economic collapse relatively recently. Check out this book, written a few years prior to that time by a native of Buenos Aires for more details.
http://www.amazon.com/The-Modern-Survival-Manual-Surviving/dp/9870563457