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Wed Aug-02-06 07:50 PM
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When chaos replaces oil

http://www.hbtoday.co.nz/localnews/storydisplay.cfm?storyid=3694928&thesection=localnews&thesubsection=&thesecondsubsection=

I just love stories like this.. And he is probably right about New Zealsnd too.

Peter Lloyd is preparing for a ghastly future. The world he foresees is one in which it will cost $700 or $1000 to fill the family car - if petrol is available for private use.

It will be a world in which the scarcity and expense of oil, widespread pollution, environmental ruin and climate change will bring down modern civilisation in terrible anarchy as countries go to war over oil, fresh water or arable land; as ordinary people try to adjust to living primitive lives without the medicines and technology that support their lives in the 21st century.

Dr Lloyd, an anaesthetist at the Hawke's Bay Hospital, estimates about 80 percent of the world's six billion people will die of hunger, disease or "slaughter on a scale never before seen in history".

New Zealand will be one of the best places to be while all this unfolds, he says, because although it will take some refugees from Australia and the Pacific Islands, it is geographically too isolated to be invaded and over-run by hordes from Asia, Africa and Europe.

He insists he's an optimist, and he is - in a way. He believes there's still a chance to prepare to survive what is going to happen. While resources based on oil are still available, the world must prepare to live without those same resources.

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Wed Aug-02-06 07:52 PM
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1. Damn...

I was hoping no-one else would notice yet.

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kestrel91316

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Wed Aug-02-06 08:56 PM
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2. Poor Kiwis and their tropical paradise - what an awful place to get stuck

in when there's no more oil..............LOL

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Dead_Parrot

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Wed Aug-02-06 09:02 PM
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3. Yeah, a real bummer...

Although I think "tropical" is going a bit far. I wouldn't be wearing this sweater if it was... :(

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kestrel91316

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Thu Aug-03-06 12:30 AM
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5. Well, subtropical. With those GORGEOUS mountains!

In my next life when I am rich, and PO does not exist, I am moving to NZ to backpack 'til I die.

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Dead_Parrot

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Thu Aug-03-06 01:22 AM
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7. Sounds like a good plan to me.

:toast:

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Vinnie From Indy

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Wed Aug-02-06 09:30 PM
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4. How much of New Zealand will be underwater due to Global Warming?

It could get crowded on top of those mountains.

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Dead_Parrot

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Thu Aug-03-06 01:21 AM
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6. Fortunately, most of it is mountains...

But I wouldn't invest in any Auckland real estate for a few millenia. :)

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