Collapse Assignment 2

Although this has been a short unit, I feel as if I want it to be over already. This collapse idea scares me, because it's something i have been thinking about for a long time. I feel as if everything that we have in this world has been declining for a really long time. Every time i hear the price of something has gone up, it scares me because I know they're running out of it. It also makes me think about the future. I it's going up now, how expensive is it going to be when I'm an adult? What also scares me is that I feel like that's the least of our problems. Like Andy said, Oil is in almost every single thing that we use, and now that the oil has peaked, the everyday things we use are not gonna be so easy to come by anymore.

Just like in Easter Island, the people of that civilization brought the downfall upon themselves, that's what we are doing here in America. Everyone knows the oil production has peaked, but we use the same amount of oil produced materials as we always have. It's not that we're oblivious to what's happening, it's that we're ignoring it. As for the "Wizard" scientists, businessmen, and Government, they're trying to solve the problem the wrong way. In the war of 1948, Israel vs. Palestine, the United States sided with Israel, and by doing that they cut off a lot of their oil source. The U.S. had been getting oil from Palestine, and now that they were fighting against them, Palestine cut them off. They now had to pollute and rape the earth even more than they had been doing. Not only that, but the oil conflict was reaching places outside of the United States.

All authority figures all over the world know that oil is running low, and they are very tense about that. They know that their very existence is based off of oil, and if anyone tries to disrupt that, they get pissed. June 5, The Peruvian Amazon: "The confrontation apparently began before dawn on Friday in Bagua in the rainforest where companies want to develop oil and natural gas projects". In Peru, the Government wants to go into the Peruvian Amazon, and use up land and resources to look for Oil. The people of Peru didn't take kindly to that, and chose to demonstrate. Unarmed, the demonstrators went to protest at a highway where the oil explorers were. Before they knew it, helicopters had opened fire on them. Even demonstrators sleeping on the side of the road were attacked by police! All this says to me is that the Government knows that our resources are running out, and they are scared.