In article , Tom Sixkiller wrote:
are absolutely
dependent on oil.

A hundred years ago it was manual labor intensive, using animal power.
Industry was coal fired/steam powered.

There were also fewer people to feed. Labour is also a renewable
resource.

Oil, however, isn't. I don't know when it's going to become more scarce,
but some day it will. Hopefully, it won't in my lifetime, but I somehow
doubt it - the early signs are showing, oil companies are no longer oil
companies but energy companies, Shell has not once but twice announced
that it has significantly less oil than it thought. Large nations like
China will have a greater demand for oil as their prosperity increases,
same goes for places like India.

But it also begs the question - isn't six billion enough already?

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