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"The expected overwhelming economic dominance of Asia was absent"
Peak Oil, as Hirsch said in his ASPO lecture, means the proportion fall in world GDP as oil supplies fall. I doubt very much Asia will continue growing, in fact India and China will have a disproportionate amount of people to try to manage post-peak.
Forget about the rise of China as a world superpower, the assumption was China could grow at 10% a year for the next 30 years. Not going to happen.
Yes, and what is China going to do about that? With an ever growing population, every increasing demand for food and resources, and ever increasing pollution they are going to be squeezed big time. The question is will China start to throw it's weight around to jockey for more of the resource pie. If history is any lesson the answer is yes. Just who will be in their crosshairs?
Richard Wakefield
London, Ont.
No one is ahead of their time, just the rest of humanity is slow to catch on.
You may want to take a look at this:
India’s population ‘to outstrip China by 2030’
"Yes, and what is China going to do about that? With an ever growing population, every increasing demand for food and resources, and ever increasing pollution they are going to be squeezed big time. The question is will China start to throw it's weight around to jockey for more of the resource pie. If history is any lesson the answer is yes. Just who will be in their crosshairs?"
Throw its weight around with what? Chinese military capabilities are limited to say the least. They have no ability to conduct over sea operations or international bombing and they have no aircraft carriers, China may have been a superpower in 2030 with another 23 years of growth but in the post-peak reality it will be struggling developing country with a high probability of large-scale population instability issues and hunger.
All these countries that "have no ability to conduct overseas operations" already have the "American people" infiltrated big time.
Odds are that Mexico would have a easier time taking over the US then we would have taking them over, their 5th column is in place.
Of course it is a little in jest, but there no longer is anything like the American people, more like an Iraq that hasn't quite broken out yet, sort of like Iraq under SH.
Aircraft carriers are relics of yesteryear's war. If you truly believe China is so incapable of throwing their weight around then I strongly suggest you review their actual military capabilities. While they may not have the direct capacity to invade the United States, they may not need to do so in order to bring us to our knees.
"The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function." -- Dr. Albert Bartlett
Into the Grey Zone
Never deny the capability of a potential future enemy that is desparate for resources. You do so at our peril.
Richard Wakefield
London, Ont.
No one is ahead of their time, just the rest of humanity is slow to catch on.