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THE WAY THINGS ARE: The meaning of life is to be found in thinking about what is reality and the beauty of reality is to be found in our DNA's memorization of all forms that have been successfully retained along the four billion years of evolution of the principle of life on Gaia our earth. In the end what I mean to say is that beauty is something objective and what we call ugliness is then simply our unconscientious feel of something evolution did not retain.
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The Oil Drum: Europe | Olduvai revisited 2008
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Olduvai revisited 2008
in The Oil Drum by Luis de Sousa and on You Tube by Nate Hagens and Chris Vernon

Richard Duncan's Olduvai Theory is re-assessed with the latest available data and modern fossil fuel depletion models. On the second half it is analyzed how can alternative energy sources fill the gap left by those finite resources.

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Forecast for Conventional Fossil Fuels per Capita.
Sources: UN for Population model, Jean Laherr\u00e8re [pdf!] for Natural Gas, Energy Watch Group for Coal and The Oil Drum - Khebab for Oil.

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My reading of what is going on today around the world integrates a set of factors that will be determining the future of humanity:
- Environmental Chaos: Climate Change, loss of bio-diversity, poisoning of land, water and air,
- Resource Collapse: Oil. Water. Topsoil. Fisheries. Seeds. Arable land. Minerals. Copper. Food.
- Societal Atomization
- Economic Globalization: Financialization, Outsourcing, Institutional lag

The Oil Drum (TOD) is all about Peak Oil and the collapse of our energy resources...