The Problem With the Total State

If we ever do reach peak fuel, whatever, and we had to revert to previous levels of energy consumption, that will be a catastrophe that we have not seen for 100 years. We just can't envision a world where you don't have fossil fuels. The Black Death was probably the most recent example of what this could be like,. When 30 to 40% of the people in an area died, that changed those people. They weren't the same kind of people that lived before.