{"id":1558,"date":"2014-11-13T19:09:19","date_gmt":"2014-11-14T00:09:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=1558"},"modified":"2014-11-13T19:09:19","modified_gmt":"2014-11-14T00:09:19","slug":"resource-crisis-the-olduvai-cliff-are-the-lights-going-out-already","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=1558","title":{"rendered":"RESOURCE CRISIS: The Olduvai cliff: are the lights going out already?"},"content":{"rendered":"

RESOURCE CRISIS: The Olduvai cliff: are the lights going out already?<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Image from\u00a0Li and Li, “international journal of remote sensing.<\/a>” h\/t\u00a0Colonel Cassad<\/a>“. The image shows the nighttime light pattern in Syria three years ago (a) and today (b).<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n

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Those among us who are diehard\u00a0catastrophists<\/span><\/span>\u00a0surely remember the “Olduvai Scenario”\u00a0proposed by Richard Duncan<\/a>\u00a0in 1989. The theory is a version of the peak oil idea, but focused on electricity production.\u00a0It<\/span>\u00a0says that the gradual depletion of fossil fuels and mineral resources will gradually lead us back to the stone age (“Olduvai” from the area inhabited by our australopithecine ancestors). According to Duncan’s\u00a0<\/a>update<\/a>\u00a0of his theory, the start of the precipitous decline (“Seneca style<\/a>“) might have started around 2012.<\/p>\n

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\nClearly, we are not there, yet, and the new stone age still seems to be far away. But, there are some ominous symptoms that something bad this way comes. I stumbled into pictures of Syria now and three years ago, and they are impressive. The lights are going out there, already. And note that it was obvious from the beginning that the decline was to be accompanied by wars and internecine strife; just as what’s happening in Syria. Surely, two pictures don’t mean that the\u00a0catastrophists<\/span>\u00a0are right; but surely they provide food for thought.<\/span><\/p>\n

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RESOURCE CRISIS: The Olduvai cliff: are the lights going out already?.   \u00a0 Image from\u00a0Li and Li, “international journal of remote sensing.” h\/t\u00a0Colonel Cassad“. The image shows the nighttime light pattern in Syria three years ago (a) and today (b). Those among us who are diehard\u00a0catastrophists\u00a0surely remember the “Olduvai Scenario”\u00a0proposed by Richard Duncan\u00a0in 1989. The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1103,1101,1102,687],"class_list":["post-1558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","tag-electricity","tag-olduvai","tag-olduvai-cliff","tag-richard-duncan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1558"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1559,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1558\/revisions\/1559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}