The Oil Drum

What will happen if we just stopped burning coal and (obviously) nuclear starting from tommorow? I have lived during a permanent 3 to 1 rationing... not that bad, just quite inconvenient. But what about 1 to 3 or 1 to 11 (as they do in Baghdad and Tirana)? Forget cooling in the summers, how will people heat in the winters, since NG will be also gone? Tell you what - I think they will start burning wood... 300 mln.north americans by several cubic meters of wood = US deforestation in a decade or so. Is this what you want?

If the 300 million Americans cut down the forests they will murder their own children. If Americans were wise they would end the coal industry and then adapt to their environment.

I told you once - our civilisation is just like a 1 mln.barrel tanker headed for an iceberg - and if your idea is to sink it then you need to know that all that cr*p is still going to get in the water. So, please stop wasting bandwidth with such suggestions and try to help those, trying to find a way to change the course - this is the only chance not only for humans but for the Mother Nature you are so much concerned of.

Homo sapiens are headed to certain, inevitable extinction. Mother Nature has endured much greater global catastrophes in the past. Mother Nature will survive and prosper for another billion years after humankind is gone.

Too bad for humankind. Our species is quickly running out of time. Extinction is looming ahead.