Peak oil a thing of the past

[Undisguised Sockpuppet]

Whose up for starting an Atlasian feudal barony somewhere in the great lakes if things go REALLY bad and we get a full collapse?

[Undisguised Sockpuppet]

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

That analogy only works if you live in the southwest.

[Undisguised Sockpuppet]

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.

[Undisguised Sockpuppet]

Good point about the swamp draining but what about the national parks in the south? I'm sure quite a few of those are swampy enough for mosquitoes to do well especially if peak oil gets bad enough for us to have a generalized collapse for a few decades(possible but not IMO the most likely path). Even if the midwest/plains 'just' became semi-desert we'd have alot harder time growing food there. We'd probably have to start importing food from Canada(climate's imrpvoed) and doing agriculture in Alaska(warmer).