peak oil. when global warming will make you laugh!

In less than 20 years the daily production of oil won’t be able to increase any more. And what is worse, from that moment on, it will decrease steadily.

This moment is called by geologists "peak oil" and, although it is very difficult to date exactly, it is totally sure that it will arrive in some years.

I've found an interesting website which explains the question in an easy way. It's called "Woolf at the door". It tells that the real problem with oil will start much before of its end: the day in which the demand will be higher than the production. Then an economic earthquake which will change everything will start.

We are so much into the consumer society that we cannot really imagine it might finish one day. Each year the computers are faster and store more for the same price. Buying clothes in the chains like H&M, Zara or GAP allows everybody to become some sort of Paris Hilton, changing our wardrobe at the speed of light. And we really find that is cool to fly to Barcelona or Berlin for the same price than the bus to the airport.

The limits of the oil extraction means that we should say goodbye to all that when the peak arrives. Maybe you don't care, cause you are really fed up with the whole capitalistic thing, but the "peak oil" seems to be also the moment in which a Third World War will be likely to start. The solution? It looks difficult anyway, thought lots of fantastic brains and resources devoted to the question could help. Nevertheless, perhaps it is a better idea to continue worrying all the time about the global warming and the Islamic terrorism which, everybody knows, are the two main menaces that our society faces.