Peak oil a thing of the past

[Colin]

Cool, it's gonna be just like Road Warrior! I can't wait.

[Colin]

Cool, it's gonna be just like Road Warrior! I can't wait.

That analogy only works if you live in the southwest.

Or the Australian outback. Maybe Global Warming will turn the Midwest and Great Plains into a desert, then it would be complete Mel Gibson mania.

[Colin]

Cool, it's gonna be just like Road Warrior! I can't wait.

That analogy only works if you live in the southwest.

Or the Australian outback. Maybe Global Warming will turn the Midwest and Great Plains into a desert, then it would be complete Mel Gibson mania.

The midwest/great plains turning into desert isn't that unlikely actually(I see it as probable). It wouldn't be a stretch to see most of the north american interior south of the great lakes and south of the canadian border zones turning into desert and the gulf states getting a full tropical disease environment in a worst case scenario.

Well yes in a worst-case scenario I could see something like that occuring, though I doubt that malaria could come back to the South considering the lack of areas for malaria mosquitos to breed, due to large scale draining of lakes and swamps that occured in the 1950's. If the Ogallala Aquifer did dry up though, which is possible but I wouldn't bet my life on it at least within the next 50 years, the Great Plains could definitely get drier. I don't know about true desert outside of the high plains but it could become semi-arid.