Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Long-Term Sustainability Notes Online...

[Brian Bartholomew (bb]

Ronald Frederick Greek <fred.greek [at] yahoo.com> writes:

> 6,600,000,000 - 37,902,186 = 6.5 billion or so must die in the time
> remaining for fossil fuels

> As of 2007, a large portion of the global population is 20 or
> younger.  At current consumption globally of 30 billion barrels per
> year, and the largest daydream of 1,200 billion barrels of oil, we
> have 40 years until depletion... MUCH LESS until demand permanently
> exceeds possible supply, and anyone not self-sufficient crashes.

Let me see if I'm understanding you correctly.  You want 99.4% of
human beings to die within 40 years?
                                                        Brian