Taking the United States as an example - oil production began, grew, and peaked in the early '70's. At that point, technological ingenuity and industrial capacity saw it's high water mark before being dragged back down by the simple fact that resources are limited. Oil is as limited a resource as any!
That is why I must propose that the global populace must adopt an unfaltering extremist approach to efficiency. No longer can time, effort, and materials be wasted on petty things.
Further, no longer can we let any singular resource slip through our hands, wasted. All must be used, and used to its absolute fullest. That is why I propose the following : We must cannibalize.
For years the thought of a zombie apocalypse has frightened and tickled imaginations. No one could have thought of the zombie apocalypse of which I now speak. We will not be running from the hungry undead. We shall consume them.
In the future, when food is difficult to find, and the majority of the population has been vanquished by hunger, disease, and war, we shall find salvation and full stomachs in the fallen. Let not the corpses of your loved ones go to waste. Be as carrion birds, and pluck from their sockets their swollen eyes to chew while you tread that dangerous, wind-swept road. Gasoline will not save you here, in this post apocalyptic future. The best survivors are the survivors who know an opportunity when they see one. I see one, and I tell you it is in the succulent and fatty fingers of our children. Breed, and breed them as cattle to be butchered either by war or by the biting teeth of the starved.
Store them, if you will, but be wary. Keeping children as we have kept cattle, in small stock-yards where they are poorly exercised and poorly fed will only produce poor quality meat. The best tasting and healthiest flesh has, and will always be derived from range fed species. Let the children run and play as they always have, and when they least suspect to be harvested, do so.
Take a lesson from the predators and scavengers that have survived for so long. Should a loved one fall ill, let not the disease spread to the rest of the stock, ruining a generation's harvest. Butcher the lame, the weak, and the slow. They will only tie you down to tasks outside of your personal survival.
In love, be as the spider. When sufficiently fertilized, kill and consume your male, so that while you nurture your young, you are well nourished. Then, when they are grown, either consume them for strength, or suffer your fate to be consumed by them.
Let us not forget, this world is no safer, nor is it any friendlier just because we may delude ourselves with such falsities. This is a dog-eat-dog-eat-human sort of world, and the seeds have already been sown. Look to your future - mate relentlessly, and consume your offspring.
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-Sean
ps- I'm out of sunflower seeds, and that really bothers me.
