Let's put it this way: an anthropologist surveyed a group of people giving them options to change their lifestyle to improve their health and to save their lives. Only 20% were willing to change their behavior to improve their health and save their lives. 80% would go on with their life killing behavior, KNOWING it was killing them. We're toast.
So funny to watch this video and read comments 10 plus years later we’re right on track for the collapse of industrial civilization I can’t wait to see it
Here it is, 2023. We have just recorded the hottest average world temperature for 3 days in a row. 70% of all species on earth are dead. Mass human migration from the equator to the north due to crop failures. The entire country of Uruguay has only 10 days of water left. Recently South Africa had the same problem. Wet bulb temperatures have appeared on the planet. Permafrost is melting, releasing massive amounts of methane. I pray that we all have grace and understanding for our fellow living beings. As we move forward.
15 years later we have increased reckless anarchy with fairly cheap oil. Guy's prediction didn't include fracking shale oil, but now that's coming to an end.
money isn't real. It is a representation of 'human' resources. But for rich to get rich, they must take advantage of hundreds or even thousands of other people's life and labor.
This was before Guy learned about the aerosol masking effect. He now thinks going cold turkey off fossil fuels is a BAD idea. In terms of civilization we’re damned if we do and damned even more rapidly if we don’t.
No worries! Fukushima has 4 fully blown out spent fuel pools and china syndromes and just had another massive quake resulting in another meltdown and the entire Pacific is dead.
Boy, He looks so thin and young back then! What he states is still accurate and we are scrapping the bottom of the barrel now with financial ZIRP, QE, Deficit spending and financing Shake and Tar oil.
Thanks for the post! For those of us who have looked at this for quite some time, it's old news....but, for many of you who are just waking up...do your homework!
update 2020 100,000,000 barrels a day, 415ppm co2, losing the arctic and greenland ice sheet, methane is now releasing from the arctic and the weather is changing, happening faster than the models, collapse is a process not an event.
2024 update. 427 ppm CO2. Oil production is topping out, renewable energy has come down in price by a lot, China installed more solar energy in 2023 than the US has its entire history, some countries are running 100% on renewable, global temperatures are at record high levels, major cities like Mexico City are running out of water, and Guy McPherson is still going pointing out that we’re living in a mass extinction event as global warming feedback loops have begun and there is little hope to turn around this ship going off a waterfall around.
@@johncoviello8570 "some countries are running 100% on renewable" you mean electricity yes? A handful can reach 100% (or more) for short periods per year. I live in one. They are not large industrial economies, and you are not including transportation, agro, construction, and materials procurement via mining or importing, which all run on diesel. You might want to double check your CO2 ppm stat as well. Maybe you meant to write 427 ppm?
Admirable y acertado. Lo digo desde Colombia. Ustedes los estadounidenses deben poner atención en éste tipo de entrevistas sobre el pico del petróleo y el calentamiento global. Y dejar de poner atención en pendejadas.
Guy, is not sleep at the wheel on auto pilot like the rest of the country. Guy, is logical, clam, comfortable, confident and accurate about the climate and loose of species. I think we have gone way too far commenting form 1/2022. I think we and all flora and fauna are going to be toast. There are far too many people now pushing 8 billion. That number of human to feed house and care for is Far from the earth ability to provide, Hell we hit Overshoot in i think 2020 Aug 22nd. That is the estimated amount of time is takes the earth to replenished all we take fro earth. At 60 I am so glad I did not have children. Back in 1980 I simply could not see bring them onto hostile violent society and dying planet.
Alot of these problems stem from our terrible political system. How could someone with influence in government (a panel) or the United Nations not see this coming 10 years ago? Who actually thought we could increase oil consumption every year (at 86 million/day) and continue forever at that pace? Who actually thought our society and suburbs would continue to grow forever? When I was 14 years old I looked around at the world and was asking these questions - but nobody had answers.
Things change and being precise difficult. We make it worse and worse. Food shortage coming back in the 70's or whenever? Absolutely. Until the mitigation by tayloring crops and petroleum agriculture. Now it can't be done again and we have twice as many people to starve, so essentially we made the end later but twice as horrific with twice the people. Same with everything. Double down. Like the loser who says "double or nothing" just makes it way worse and puts it off a while.
@Juib Morrowind Delayed it? Right now there are about 300 tankers off the California coast with no where to deliver their oil because there is no room for it. The price last week was negative $32 per barrel. The guy was just plain wrong...
Most attention is given to oil production peaking ... but really the production of just about everything is peaking. Too many people ... to few resources.
This guy now a professor emeritus has been predicting the end of the world for years and continues to predict the end of the world to this day ....... Only he has to do is whenever is predicted date of annihilation comes and goes is to predict a new date and so on and so forth
@JZ's Best Friend 2026 he said he can't imagine humans living in the planet past 2026 also with the Rona he said the airesol masking effect would raise the global temp 1 C in roughly 6 weeks well so far this has not happened earth has slightly cooled since February 2020 though it is still warmer than the 1981-2010 average globally.
4:18 nice to hear someone tell people the difference between anarchy and chaos... Ever notice how many use them as synonyms wrongly? Gee wonder why that is 🤔🤫.
So he's a few years out, thing's are still relatively stable. But keep your eye the North and the South. Im not hearing good news, off the northern coast of Australia sea temperatures were reaching 25c. That's hot. But keep looking the other way. It'll be in your backyard before you know it.
Interesting viewing this in 2020.... 12 years later. Pandemic. Oil doesn't seem to be a problem? Prediction is risky business. But I still believe in a climate emergency and we need to urgently act. Just was cautious about his solid a bit extreme predictions, which are malleable and seem to keep being nudged further as time passes.
I think oil is a major problem world wide. Solar is probably our best option though it has issues too. Like mining rare earth for both the panels and the batteries.
At the current rate of development there isnt enough electricity to replace the energy and products created from oil by a long shot. But its true that a serious restructuring of life to a less energy dependent one can make the transition easier. But that requires leadership and as Guy McPherson states, its nowhere to be seen. Its business as usual. This kind of behaviour will make the fall so much higher than it should be. Lets hope people wise up long before that, time is running out.
Yet again- I can see your tombstone (not really because there won’t be humans left to carve it) “Guy McPherson was wrong! It wasn’t the 10:45 bus that ran over me and killed me. It was the 11:03. SO THERE!”
The minor drama of Guy McPherson is that he still hasn't learned to know himself. He's clearly very intelligent, but his chronic instinct of wanting to explain how the future will pan out, when the overwhelming majority of humanity only wants to hear fairytale stories, amounts to self-psychological torture. Guy: forget your teacher's instincts, forget your fellow human beings. Humanity will have to deal with its collapse in real time sooner or later.
For the love of money is the root of all evil, and it is easier for a camel to go through the hole of a needle than for a rich person, for industrial properous civilization, to go to the Kingdom of Heaven/ the Paradise of the Proletariate/ the Sustainable Permaculture Ecovillage future
were so lazy that when we discovered oil we even have our own touch pad so we dont even have to push a button. fact: a person who depends on one source is doomed from the start
The professor said that we're gonna stop burning fossil fuels. I agree that we're gonna stop burning so much oil because of a lack of supply. But there is soooo much coal. I think countries will just switch to coal to produce electricity. (electric cars which will be unfortunately be touted as "clean") Which will greatly increase global warming, since there is quite a lot of coal still in the ground. Anyone else have any thoughts on that idea?
How do we really now? Do we really think there powers that be would announce it? ”hey everyone, just a quick FYI we're slowly running out of oil, no worries, here's Jim with the weather". Look how people reacted to toilet paper shortages. Doesn't matter what it is, any shortages that get leaked, people freak and the controllers are very aware that it could get mad Max crazy.
@@drakedoragon3026 Since the 70's reports are available. If anyone thinks _any resource is infinite_ they are just not reading available _peer reviewed science_ and are possibly lost in denier blogs, websites or shill institutions.
@@fraidycat7037 Oil resources are finite. And existing sources have a far higher cost of extraction, than they did in the early 20th century. Shale oil is particularly expensive and dirty to extract and process.
Yeah it really isn't good. $150-200 oil soon? The oil demand is so inelastic (and don't forget the USD is becoming worth less, so oil is going up becuase of that as well). The inventory reports seem to show that even with high prices and economic slowdown we are still using oil at a decent rate. Get yourself a nice little farm. Wind generator, solar panels, whatever works in your area.
@@drewpierce8788 lol...I listened to some very smart people that turned out to be dead wrong on "peak oil." On the plus side, that farmland is up in price dramatically because of cheap money and low interest rates. The Fed has also printed around $6.5 Trillion, with more to come.
Fortunately, peak oil never happened. Technology gave us some more time. But, oil is not going to replenish itself. One day it will be gone. However, technology possibly could save us again if battery, solar etc become more perfected and implemented in time. But, even so climate change an economic collapse also have a foothold on the stairway to our demise.
And he turned out to be completely incorrect. Running out of oil is the least of our worries. Guy had me for a few years, but I began to notice some inconsistentcies. He also tends to make the most extreme and dire predictions, which then does not happen. Guy is very knowledgeable, I agree with his overall assessment that we are headed towards extinction. However, overall, he just has lost a lot of credibility in my mind, somewhat of a con artist. Just my opinion.
He said we have until 2026 and that the Rona will stop the airesol making effect causing massive temperature increase unless May goes way up globaly he is wrong and won't admit it.
First off ... I'm a progressive AND I am deeply concerned about Global Climate Crisis as I type this in the later half of the year 2019. Having said that ... hasn't "peak oil" been proven, well, sort of wrong or at least off the mark a bit? I'm just asking the question. My feeble attempt at critical thinking.
McPherson didn't allow for new technology, for example, fracking. But without a crystal ball, how could one do that. McPherson's other insights into climate change are also susceptible to technological discoveries / improvements. But he addresses this concept when he allows for miracles, i.e., game changing technological discoveries.
Yes, "peak oil" has been debunked. Also in 2009, the year after this video was made, wikileaks released the leaked the climategate emails which proved that the top climate scientists associated with the IPCC conspired to mislead the public and published fake climate data. Like Peak oil, Catastrophic global warming is a hoax. You've been duped by dishonest climate alarmists and the Democratic party. They are greedy kleptocrats who promise you utopian socialism but really just seek to make energy prices skyrocket by scaring the hell out of everyone and get filthy rich doing it while you get poorer. #walkaway
Well that 80s style Republics president Obama (yep he flat out said his policies are Republican in the 80s. Jimmy Dore video shows it) opened the Arctic up for drilling multiple times. That wasn't feasible before because the Arctic was bigger. And yes fracking has increased production. Of course you better not have any flammable material near your running faucet because it might catch fire. Small price to pay though to keep oil production high.
We survived before oil and we'll survive again after it, common sense. Our lives won't go back to the Stone Ages either because alternate energy will replace SOME "necessities" we rely on that need oil. I don't understand how some of you people can live thinking like this. Are you trying to make yourselves depressed? You'll be just fine, maybe a little bit over extended for awhile, as long as you switch to electronic cars, solar energy, and try to grow your own food and stock up on water+seeds.
He was so ahead of his time.
Let's put it this way: an anthropologist surveyed a group of people giving them options to change their lifestyle to improve their health and to save their lives. Only 20% were willing to change their behavior to improve their health and save their lives. 80% would go on with their life killing behavior, KNOWING it was killing them.
We're toast.
Without a doubt!!
So funny to watch this video and read comments 10 plus years later we’re right on track for the collapse of industrial civilization I can’t wait to see it
Here it is, 2023. We have just recorded the hottest average world temperature for 3 days in a row. 70% of all species on earth are dead. Mass human migration from the equator to the north due to crop failures. The entire country of Uruguay has only 10 days of water left. Recently South Africa had the same problem. Wet bulb temperatures have appeared on the planet. Permafrost is melting, releasing massive amounts of methane. I pray that we all have grace and understanding for our fellow living beings. As we move forward.
Your nuts the world is doing better now climate wise than it has in a long time
15 years later we have increased reckless anarchy with fairly cheap oil. Guy's prediction didn't include fracking shale oil, but now that's coming to an end.
Yep. It sure seems like it.
Not
money isn't real. It is a representation of 'human' resources. But for rich to get rich, they must take advantage of hundreds or even thousands of other people's life and labor.
yes it is a measure of exploitatiion.. more money = more guilt. As a meme it will shortly go crazy then disappear.
Thank you Proffesor Guy
High Guy, great to see you doing your wonderful job as usual. Many thanks.
Wow! This is a blast from the past...
Thank you Professor Guy McPherson!
This was before Guy learned about the aerosol masking effect. He now thinks going cold turkey off fossil fuels is a BAD idea. In terms of civilization we’re damned if we do and damned even more rapidly if we don’t.
Yep. We’re damned, we’re doomed
No worries! Fukushima has 4 fully blown out spent fuel pools and china syndromes and just had another massive quake resulting in another meltdown and the entire Pacific is dead.
That prediction didn't work well
It's just a question of timing. A lack of fossil fuels and/or a sharp jump in world temperatures means game over for our civilisation as we know it.
@biggav7434 all lies from satan good sir
Boy, He looks so thin and young back then! What he states is still accurate and we are scrapping the bottom of the barrel now with financial ZIRP, QE, Deficit spending and financing Shake and Tar oil.
I am positive somebody looking at you after 14 years will say the same .
If only, if only. So very sad 15 years later. You spoke the truth Professor but greed won out.
Thanks for the post! For those of us who have looked at this for quite some time, it's old news....but, for many of you who are just waking up...do your homework!
update 2020 100,000,000 barrels a day, 415ppm co2, losing the arctic and greenland ice sheet, methane is now releasing from the arctic and the weather is changing, happening faster than the models, collapse is a process not an event.
@Accelerationist ooops corrected
All his predictions have been wrong
2024 update. 427 ppm CO2. Oil production is topping out, renewable energy has come down in price by a lot, China installed more solar energy in 2023 than the US has its entire history, some countries are running 100% on renewable, global temperatures are at record high levels, major cities like Mexico City are running out of water, and Guy McPherson is still going pointing out that we’re living in a mass extinction event as global warming feedback loops have begun and there is little hope to turn around this ship going off a waterfall around.
@@johncoviello8570 "some countries are running 100% on renewable" you mean electricity yes? A handful can reach 100% (or more) for short periods per year. I live in one. They are not large industrial economies, and you are not including transportation, agro, construction, and materials procurement via mining or importing, which all run on diesel. You might want to double check your CO2 ppm stat as well. Maybe you meant to write 427 ppm?
How do you feel now??
Admirable y acertado. Lo digo desde Colombia. Ustedes los estadounidenses deben poner atención en éste tipo de entrevistas sobre el pico del petróleo y el calentamiento global. Y dejar de poner atención en pendejadas.
I remember him saying these things in 2013!
@victorschwanberg according to him we will all be dead by 2026 guess what it won't happen not the way he is saying it anyway
Guy, is not sleep at the wheel on auto pilot like the rest of the country. Guy, is logical, clam, comfortable, confident and accurate about the climate and loose of species. I think we have gone way too far commenting form 1/2022. I think we and all flora and fauna are going to be toast. There are far too many people now pushing 8 billion. That number of human to feed house and care for is Far from the earth ability to provide, Hell we hit Overshoot in i think 2020 Aug 22nd. That is the estimated amount of time is takes the earth to replenished all we take fro earth. At 60 I am so glad I did not have children. Back in 1980 I simply could not see bring them onto hostile violent society and dying planet.
So back in 2008 Guy McPherson was preaching Doom because of peak oil and now he is preaching Doom because of climate change. I see a pattern here.
Alot of these problems stem from our terrible political system. How could someone with influence in government (a panel) or the United Nations not see this coming 10 years ago? Who actually thought we could increase oil consumption every year (at 86 million/day) and continue forever at that pace? Who actually thought our society and suburbs would continue to grow forever?
When I was 14 years old I looked around at the world and was asking these questions - but nobody had answers.
Bravo a toi Guy pour ton courage ..!
Well that didn’t age very well, it’s like how they announced the world would end in 2000.
Ur so wrong stop y
Trolling
Guy McPherson was wrong about this one.... Hope he's wrong about his latest predictions as well.
Things change and being precise difficult. We make it worse and worse. Food shortage coming back in the 70's or whenever? Absolutely. Until the mitigation by tayloring crops and petroleum agriculture. Now it can't be done again and we have twice as many people to starve, so essentially we made the end later but twice as horrific with twice the people.
Same with everything. Double down. Like the loser who says "double or nothing" just makes it way worse and puts it off a while.
@Juib Morrowind Delayed it? Right now there are about 300 tankers off the California coast with no where to deliver their oil because there is no room for it. The price last week was negative $32 per barrel. The guy was just plain wrong...
Covid restrictions has slowed down oil consumption, giving the illusion of oil abundance. Mcpherson could still be correct.
Most attention is given to oil production peaking ... but really the production of just about everything is peaking.
Too many people ... to few resources.
Well it didn't all come down as soon as predicted, but give it time. The concerns outline by GM never actual went away.
This guy now a professor emeritus has been predicting the end of the world for years and continues to predict the end of the world to this day ....... Only he has to do is whenever is predicted date of annihilation comes and goes is to predict a new date and so on and so forth
@JZ's Best Friend 2026 he said he can't imagine humans living in the planet past 2026 also with the Rona he said the airesol masking effect would raise the global temp 1 C in roughly 6 weeks well so far this has not happened earth has slightly cooled since February 2020 though it is still warmer than the 1981-2010 average globally.
Alllllmost there....
Even climate scientists are still having children. Good luck humans😅
We're toast.
4:18 nice to hear someone tell people the difference between anarchy and chaos... Ever notice how many use them as synonyms wrongly? Gee wonder why that is 🤔🤫.
So he's a few years out, thing's are still relatively stable. But keep your eye the North and the South. Im not hearing good news, off the northern coast of Australia sea temperatures were reaching 25c. That's hot. But keep looking the other way. It'll be in your backyard before you know it.
Oil sands where never going to be viable and now we are mining them like crazy. The price of fuel is going to go up and up.
Interesting viewing this in 2020.... 12 years later. Pandemic. Oil doesn't seem to be a problem? Prediction is risky business. But I still believe in a climate emergency and we need to urgently act. Just was cautious about his solid a bit extreme predictions, which are malleable and seem to keep being nudged further as time passes.
I think oil is a major problem world wide. Solar is probably our best option though it has issues too. Like mining rare earth for both the panels and the batteries.
yes, very true. and nobody with power wanted to give answers - they just wanted to sustain their lifestyle with the money of working people.
recs of the flesh on
Is this prior to fracking?
Yes
At the current rate of development there isnt enough electricity to replace the energy and products created from oil by a long shot. But its true that a serious restructuring of life to a less energy dependent one can make the transition easier. But that requires leadership and as Guy McPherson states, its nowhere to be seen. Its business as usual. This kind of behaviour will make the fall so much higher than it should be. Lets hope people wise up long before that, time is running out.
Time has already run out. The time to tackle climate change was in the eighties.
I think that trying to pick an exact date for peak oil is irrelevant. On the other hand $112.00 a barrel speaks volumes.
$400 a barrel oil. It peaked at $147 a year before his interview.
Actually about 3 months after this interview. July 2008 oil hit $147 per barrel
And the he became aware of global dimming, the McPherson Paradox
2002 he predicts we will go extinct in ten years. 17yrs later..... "what I ment to say" crys Guy
He was wrong about 2015
Yet again- I can see your tombstone (not really because there won’t be humans left to carve it) “Guy McPherson was wrong! It wasn’t the 10:45 bus that ran over me and killed me. It was the 11:03. SO THERE!”
And will soon be wrong about the Airesol all making effect to.
@@mypetcrow9873 what about his prescription for the all masking effect so far he is dead wrong
The minor drama of Guy McPherson is that he still hasn't learned to know himself. He's clearly very intelligent, but his chronic instinct of wanting to explain how the future will pan out, when the overwhelming majority of humanity only wants to hear fairytale stories, amounts to self-psychological torture. Guy: forget your teacher's instincts, forget your fellow human beings. Humanity will have to deal with its collapse in real time sooner or later.
He didn't realize that the end of the world where is 2 degrees and even after we don't use any resources the greenhouse effect will kick in
For the love of money is the root of all evil, and it is easier for a camel to go through the hole of a needle than for a rich person, for industrial properous civilization, to go to the Kingdom of Heaven/ the Paradise of the Proletariate/ the Sustainable Permaculture Ecovillage future
were so lazy that when we discovered oil we even have our own touch pad so we dont even have to push a button.
fact: a person who depends on one source is doomed from the start
Well, he's been proved wrong so far.
The professor said that we're gonna stop burning fossil fuels. I agree that we're gonna stop burning so much oil because of a lack of supply. But there is soooo much coal. I think countries will just switch to coal to produce electricity. (electric cars which will be unfortunately be touted as "clean") Which will greatly increase global warming, since there is quite a lot of coal still in the ground.
Anyone else have any thoughts on that idea?
Now in 2023 USA still have enough oil and natural gas. But probably in 2 or 3 years will begin the catsstrophe.
Wait until you hear his Ideas on climate change and the aerosol masking effect....
Three weeks since your comment and already it has got worse.
If we recognize the problem then just maybe we will do something about it.
Today is September 3 2019. World consumes 93 million barrels per day, and price per barrel is $45. The world still hasnt ended.
Don't listen to the fear merchants grow your own victory garden and keep living life is great and will be for many generations to come
No 400. Oil yet
Oil was negative $37 a barrel last week. Man this guy is horrible at predicting the future.
wars already broke out to delay that as long as possible.
lol 11 years later. Oil $54 not $400...
😱 The End of a Career in AZ
I thought peak oil was disinfo. There is no peak oil.
There is. Pull your head out your...
@@kilbridemeredith8742 We will never run out of oil that's a myth. th-cam.com/video/LHD4U2q_p4c/w-d-xo.html
How do we really now? Do we really think there powers that be would announce it? ”hey everyone, just a quick FYI we're slowly running out of oil, no worries, here's Jim with the weather". Look how people reacted to toilet paper shortages. Doesn't matter what it is, any shortages that get leaked, people freak and the controllers are very aware that it could get mad Max crazy.
@@drakedoragon3026
Since the 70's reports are available. If anyone thinks _any resource is infinite_ they are just not reading available _peer reviewed science_ and are possibly lost in denier blogs, websites or shill institutions.
@@fraidycat7037 Oil resources are finite. And existing sources have a far higher cost of extraction, than they did in the early 20th century. Shale oil is particularly expensive and dirty to extract and process.
It's Bruce Willis again,don't worry,he's only acting lol,hope that gave someone a laugh
Yeah it really isn't good. $150-200 oil soon? The oil demand is so inelastic (and don't forget the USD is becoming worth less, so oil is going up becuase of that as well).
The inventory reports seem to show that even with high prices and economic slowdown we are still using oil at a decent rate.
Get yourself a nice little farm. Wind generator, solar panels, whatever works in your area.
lol 12 years later... Oil -$37 (that's negative $37 dollars)... How's that farm doing 12 years later?
@@drewpierce8788 lol...I listened to some very smart people that turned out to be dead wrong on "peak oil." On the plus side, that farmland is up in price dramatically because of cheap money and low interest rates. The Fed has also printed around $6.5 Trillion, with more to come.
Right on Victory garden
@@drewpierce8788 victory gardens are always a good idea even if Guy is dead wrong which he is.
you were wrong about oil and are you wrong about the end of humans 2020 fracking rules but he never saw that
Fortunately, peak oil never happened. Technology gave us some more time. But, oil is not going to replenish itself. One day it will be gone. However, technology possibly could save us again if battery, solar etc become more perfected and implemented in time. But, even so climate change an economic collapse also have a foothold on the stairway to our demise.
Green tech won't save us mate. Just Google the Jevons Paradox.
Technology does not equal energy
@@KellyMonk156 Solar technology is an energy. Sun light is free. The technology to convert it to electrical energy does exist.
@@oldgeezer8038 solar technology is energy capturing technology. Technology isn't energy
Are we dead yet guy? with all your wisdom and gifts just like all these scientists WRONG WRONG WRONG
Has every person whose ever been born died or will die? 99.9% of species in Earths history have gone extinct.
Your point is dumb. Learn some science.
And he turned out to be completely incorrect. Running out of oil is the least of our worries.
Guy had me for a few years, but I began to notice some inconsistentcies. He also tends to make the most extreme and dire predictions, which then does not happen.
Guy is very knowledgeable, I agree with his overall assessment that we are headed towards extinction.
However, overall, he just has lost a lot of credibility in my mind, somewhat of a con artist. Just my opinion.
He said we have until 2026 and that the Rona will stop the airesol making effect causing massive temperature increase unless May goes way up globaly he is wrong and won't admit it.
@@gumpyflyale2542 LOL now you are "defaming" him
First off ... I'm a progressive AND I am deeply concerned about Global Climate Crisis as I type this in the later half of the year 2019. Having said that ... hasn't "peak oil" been proven, well, sort of wrong or at least off the mark a bit? I'm just asking the question. My feeble attempt at critical thinking.
McPherson didn't allow for new technology, for example, fracking. But without a crystal ball, how could one do that.
McPherson's other insights into climate change are also susceptible to technological discoveries / improvements. But he addresses this concept when he allows for miracles, i.e., game changing technological discoveries.
Yes, "peak oil" has been debunked. Also in 2009, the year after this video was made, wikileaks released the leaked the climategate emails which proved that the top climate scientists associated with the IPCC conspired to mislead the public and published fake climate data.
Like Peak oil, Catastrophic global warming is a hoax. You've been duped by dishonest climate alarmists and the Democratic party. They are greedy kleptocrats who promise you utopian socialism but really just seek to make energy prices skyrocket by scaring the hell out of everyone and get filthy rich doing it while you get poorer.
#walkaway
Well that 80s style Republics president Obama (yep he flat out said his policies are Republican in the 80s. Jimmy Dore video shows it) opened the Arctic up for drilling multiple times. That wasn't feasible before because the Arctic was bigger.
And yes fracking has increased production. Of course you better not have any flammable material near your running faucet because it might catch fire. Small price to pay though to keep oil production high.
@@johndoe3328 You're an idiot.
We survived before oil and we'll survive again after it, common sense. Our lives won't go back to the Stone Ages either because alternate energy will replace SOME "necessities" we rely on that need oil. I don't understand how some of you people can live thinking like this. Are you trying to make yourselves depressed? You'll be just fine, maybe a little bit over extended for awhile, as long as you switch to electronic cars, solar energy, and try to grow your own food and stock up on water+seeds.