black river runs dry

Imagine this situation.....one day the world wakes up and there is no more oil. At one time, with the help of some paranoid doomsayers in my ear, I was almost constantly anxious about this scenario. People run a muck, riots break out world wide, city people raid farms, most everyone is quickly immobile and food and goods run out in a matter of days. I don't know....it could happen..lots of things could happen. We all know that our way of life is unsustainable, we just don't know how long until nature restores order, or if, as a species we'll adjust like we have so many times before. Maybe at the last minute, we'll stop needing fossil fuels. It could happen...lots of things could happen. Some people think this is the last minute. Many people have thought that before. There is always some prophesy or sign or suggestion that gives us warning the world is about to end. Maybe most of us sort of like the idea that something drastic will abruptly change the world. Continuity is boring and depressing. We keep polluting and water gets dangerous and more people die of cancer and there's more pollution and the air gets dirtier and the sky always looks hazy and more people have asthma and there's more pollution and the soil gets more impoverished and species die off and wilderness disappears and on and on...blah blah blah. Depressing. But if Jesus comes back and the Antichrist takes over.....what an exciting story! Or maybe we all evolve to a higher consciousness and our eyes glow and we float around and teleport and stuff. Or maybe the world ends in 2012 with the Mayan calendar and we all burn alive and nothing is left but the mushrooms. I don't know. It could happen...lots of things could happen.
Anyhow....if the oil ran out while we were still dependent, where would you rather be?


http://foodandfarming.bioneers.org/node/84