Well, either we revert back to the neolithic era standards of living, which will result in at least 90% of the population dying because there is no way so many could possibly shift to manual labor with everyone having to walk everywhere, with no way to grow enough food and transport it into the cities (although the survivors will be incredibly fit once the dust settles), or we get busy with replacing fossil fuels with other energy sources.

And we didn't get here overnight, so we won't get out of this overnight either. But if things don't turn around fairly quickly, there won't be a soft landing.

This is probably a problem that happens to every species throughout the cosmos that develops industrial civilization. They aren't out there in a galactic empire because they self destruct before they ever get off their home planet.

Depopulation one way or the other... the inevitable natural process... or the planned way! (* SMIRK *)

FWIW

Or we will pull it together and be fine.

WALTER784 said:

Depopulation one way or the other... the inevitable natural process... or the planned way!

It doesn't require a planned conspiracy cabal to achieve depopulation. It will happen on its own even if Homer Simpson is running things.

Just like the massive rabbit depopulation here in the spring and summer of 1986 was not planned by anyone, although anyone with some basic knowledge of ecology and biology could have seen it coming when rabbits were so numerous you would run over about 3 or 4 per mile on a typical highway at night, and find a huge amount of rabbit fur, bits of meat, blood, some ears, etc. lodged in your vehicle frame that had to be cleaned out after every trip.

They stripped the vegetation bare. When I tried to have a garden that spring, I spent the night on the roof with the Ruger 10-22 and at least 500 to 1,000 rounds of .22 LR and a night scope. When I wasn't reloading high capacity magazines, I was resting the rifle on sandbags and a bipod, centering the crosshairs on a rabbit in the garden, and squeezing off yet another round. I'd typically shoot well over a hundred rabbits in a single night in March and early April of 1986.

Then the numbers dropped dramatically. I would see the bark gnawed off of the mesquites and any other green plant, even saw cactus that had been gnawed in desperation by starving rabbits after they had stripped everything green from the landscape.

And finally even cactus and mesquites no longer had any available nutrients, and billions of them died. I walked around in the nearby ranch land and saw well worn game trails, and decomposing remains of emaciated rabbits just lying out in the open where they fell.

They were so scrawny by the time they died that even the scavengers found slim pickings in short order.

Once any species outbreeds its food supply, mass starvation follows soon.

And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.  - Revelation 6:8

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And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.  - Revelation 6:8

I've heard similar from various religious people over the past two years.

The Jewish quote the Ezekiel 38 wars whereas the Christians quote the Revelation. 

We are starting to see quite a bit of flooding, draught, earthquakes, volcanoes, etc. start to increase as well.

I think the key will be the total destruction of Damascus (current day city of Aleppo, Syria) followed by the building of the third Jewish Temple in Israel.

FWIW

Us girls, back in the 70s, used to go shaggin' with the guys at night.  Jack rabbits were a menace.  My brother-in-law had to put electric wire around his new trees on his property just too keep them from eating them before they were strong enough to handle it.

However, we did this a few times a year during the summer.  Which kept the jack rabbits at bay, for the most part.  My sister lived out on property, so not as easy for her and my brother-in-law.

Then, the government decided to step in.  Which was stupid as stupid gets.  They almost eradicated the jack rabbits, or came pretty close.  Which meant the coyotes started coming into town looking for food, something we never had a problem with.  It's not that we didn't encounter coyotes, because we spent a lot of our time out in the middle of the desert, but never, or rarely ever in town.

Goes to prove, the government screws things up far worse then we the people do.  We'd go shaggin' and have ourselves a good time, but we weren't trying to wipe them out.  Also, if we saw a bunny, we took that home.  That was food.  The government didn't do that and left them to die along side the Jacks.  :-|

We have wild rabbits that never get too large in numbers because the coyotes eat them.

Could quote both Ezekiel and Revelation. Also some parts of Daniel.

We used to "combat shoot" out in the pastures at night, in the early 1980s when the first laser sights started showing up on the market, and tactical flashlights, although they were quartz-halogen and ate batteries like M&Ms. The "big loping jackrabbits" were like pop-up Hogan's Alley targets, that gave one a marksmanship challenge hitting a moving target with a .22.

But we'd go out there plinking for a good portion of the night.

It never really made much of a dent in the jackrabbits.

Odessa, TX has a bunch of fiberglass jackrabbit statues all over town, which newcomers look at with bafflement as we don't have jacks running around like we did in the 1970s and 80s through the late spring of 1986.

After most of the rabbits starved, I didn't see a single rabbit again until about 2007 or so, and then it seemed so out of place.

Today they are still sort of scarce. A whole lot of wildlife I remember from the old days are conspicuously missing. There used to be possums, armadillos, even porcupines, wild turkeys, feral hogs.

Nowadays all I see is the occasional skunk or raccoon, which seem to have adapted quite nicely to suburban encroachment.

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