Auf bto findet sich dazu ein lesenswerter Artikel, der seinerseits auf ein Original von Zerohedge zurückgeht.
Daraus ein paar Highlights:
- [6] Europe, in particular, cannot afford high oil prices. If interest rates are increased soon, this will make the problem even worse. China seems to have definite advantages as an economic partner.
- [7] Russia realized that the rest of the world is utterly dependent upon its fossil fuel exports. Because of this dependency, as well as the physics-based connection between the burning of fossil fuels and the making of finished goods and services, Russia holds huge power over the world economy.
- We live in what historians may someday call the Fossil Fuel Age. . .With high energy consumption goes a high standard of living (…) A reduction of per capita energy consumption has always in the past led to a decline in civilization and a reversion to a more primitive way of life. (…) The likely problem with fossil fuels has been hidden behind an imaginative, but false, narrative that our biggest problem is climate change caused primarily by fossil fuel extraction that can be expected to extend until at least 2100, unless positive steps are made to hold back this extraction.
Unser Lebensstil ist mit einem bestimmten Energiebedarf verbunden. Steht uns weniger Energie zur Verfügung, so wird das Auswirkungen auf unseren Lebensstandard haben.
Die Frage ist, wie weit diese Auswirkungen gehen können bzw. wie lange sie von der Bevölkerung akzeptiert werden.
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