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“Yeah, you remember this laugh when you’re trying to drink piss and my windmill is pumping a bathtub full of water!”
Here’s a great animated clip from a pretty killer artist: James W. Johnson It’s a funny short detailing one redneck’s planning for Peak Oil, and his vision of our future is probably not far off. So hit the gym and get ready!
“So go right ahead and laugh, I don’t really care. Cause while you’re laughing—I’m stockin’ up!”
Our modern lives are greatly dependent on petroleum; as President George W. Bush phrased it in his 2006 State of the Union Address, “America is addicted to oil.” Nowhere is his cliché more applicable than in agriculture. Starting in the the 1940s, the Green Revolution introduced hybrid cereal crops to farming. Known as high yielding varieties, these plants are only part of the transformation from agriculture to agribusiness. To produce these higher yields the crops need more energy, yet the sun shines no brighter and the soil’s wealth only diminishes. Hydrocarbon fertilizers provide this energy.
“Food is oil,” insists Richard Manning in Harper’s Magazine, “every single calorie we eat is backed by at least a calorie of oil, more like ten.” Industrial agriculture also relies on vast amounts of petroleum for pesticides, irrigation, farming equipment, transportation, and food processing. Depending on fossil fuels for our food supply means that the United States is trusting petroleum exporting countries to keep us fed.