On Sat, 17 Jul 2004 10:05:36 -0700, Jonathan Ganz wrote:

This implies that we won't find viable alternatives between now and then.
There will probably be some severe problems in high population 3rd world
countries, but they already have these problems. The 1st world will be
much less affected.

I'm not so sure. Alternatives? As an energy source, perhaps, but for
plastics, medicines, fertilizers, perhaps not. Also, as peak oil is now,
time is running out. A little factoid, the US population consumes its
entire weight in oil . . . every week.

http://www.oilcrisis.com/debate/oilcalcs.htm