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[...] according to a new U.S. Army report, Americans could face a horrifically grim future from climate change involving blackouts, disease, thirst, starvation and war. The study found that the US military itself might also collapse. This could all happen over the next two decades, the report notes.
[...] The report paints a frightening portrait of a country falling apart over the next 20 years due to the impacts of climate change on "natural systems such as oceans, lakes, rivers, ground water, reefs, and forests.
Current infrastructure in the US, the report says, is woefully underprepared: "Most of the critical infrastructures identified by the Department of Homeland Security are not built to withstand these altered conditions."
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Osamabobama on Monday October 28 2019, @07:33PM
I'm betting the new peak oil is a peak in market demand, as other sources of energy continue to replace fossil fuels. Of course, supply limitations will show up as consumption limitations, so the two are similar in effect. The main difference is the price. As demand decreases, the price tends lower; as supply decreases (hypothetically, in a peak oil scenario), prices increase.
Here [timogrossenbacher.ch] is an interactive infographic that suggests that oil usage has already peaked in some areas. Maybe that's a short-term turnaround because of economic difficulties, but the monotonic increases expected by the peak oil theory are not there in many locations around the world.
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