a ramble from me...you are warned..it could be one post or 100...lol
in my original post i said in 500 years..i will try and only talk about that and not time before as it would require more than i can type out and organize with my poor typing,bad spelling and lack of proper grammar etc....
in 500 years most of easy access minerals,ores,oil etc. will be gone or mostly gone.if we develop things like methane i am not sure of...for now i say no.
#1 critical thing will be oil and all that comes from it from plastics to fertilizer.Gasoline/diesel and fertilizer are the main things this large population cant live without.Food and transport of it bottom line...and farming equipment used in it and powered by diesel. So i believe the population at some point will decline drastically.You can look up population growth chart and how fertilizer invention is linked with it in charts.
Currently we live in a world where on area we use satellite guided tractors while other portions are still using oxen with a wooden point.In 500 years it will be the same drastic contrast only on a much lower scale overall.Power generation will be a regional thing with gas gone..mostly..generation will stop from these natgas station. we will have only power from dams and possibly nuclear. But not sure about the nuke plants as we will have to have workers and ways to store and discard spent cells and whatever all that goes with that and with lack of diesel there wont be transport to facilities etc. to keep it all going.Places with power from dams will be or have limited population numbers based on food availability produced in that area. Again transport will limit everything. Some fuel may still exist but it will be super limited and rationed.
Some very industrious folks will have or invent items from trash. I know years ago a guy took an electric fork lift motor and battery and rigged it up in some tiny car,...i think a chevette maybe...he could travel 200 miles around his area in the thing.
Modern day hunter/gather will scavenge everything from natural resources to salvaged goods from dead vehicles,bricks,stone,metals and so on..oh and plastics..we will take all the trash from past and chip grind it and reuse plastic.A bottle be it plastic or SS for drinking water will be a guarded item as will a backpack,slingpack etc. everyone will carry a pack with water and a few items so when they run across items they can get them back home or to a trader.One thing to will be a thermos of some type or a bowl with screw on lid so if you pass a place offering food or can work for a few wages and a meal you can take some home if offered. I know in depression my family were poor but they farmed hard and had some food and they shared with people in town who they knew or done work for them etc. Grandfather said he would make sauerkraut and a few folks come up and fill their little lunch bucket thing up to take home to their families.
maybe more later..tired of typing.
in my original post i said in 500 years..i will try and only talk about that and not time before as it would require more than i can type out and organize with my poor typing,bad spelling and lack of proper grammar etc....
in 500 years most of easy access minerals,ores,oil etc. will be gone or mostly gone.if we develop things like methane i am not sure of...for now i say no.
#1 critical thing will be oil and all that comes from it from plastics to fertilizer.Gasoline/diesel and fertilizer are the main things this large population cant live without.Food and transport of it bottom line...and farming equipment used in it and powered by diesel. So i believe the population at some point will decline drastically.You can look up population growth chart and how fertilizer invention is linked with it in charts.
Currently we live in a world where on area we use satellite guided tractors while other portions are still using oxen with a wooden point.In 500 years it will be the same drastic contrast only on a much lower scale overall.Power generation will be a regional thing with gas gone..mostly..generation will stop from these natgas station. we will have only power from dams and possibly nuclear. But not sure about the nuke plants as we will have to have workers and ways to store and discard spent cells and whatever all that goes with that and with lack of diesel there wont be transport to facilities etc. to keep it all going.Places with power from dams will be or have limited population numbers based on food availability produced in that area. Again transport will limit everything. Some fuel may still exist but it will be super limited and rationed.
Some very industrious folks will have or invent items from trash. I know years ago a guy took an electric fork lift motor and battery and rigged it up in some tiny car,...i think a chevette maybe...he could travel 200 miles around his area in the thing.
Modern day hunter/gather will scavenge everything from natural resources to salvaged goods from dead vehicles,bricks,stone,metals and so on..oh and plastics..we will take all the trash from past and chip grind it and reuse plastic.A bottle be it plastic or SS for drinking water will be a guarded item as will a backpack,slingpack etc. everyone will carry a pack with water and a few items so when they run across items they can get them back home or to a trader.One thing to will be a thermos of some type or a bowl with screw on lid so if you pass a place offering food or can work for a few wages and a meal you can take some home if offered. I know in depression my family were poor but they farmed hard and had some food and they shared with people in town who they knew or done work for them etc. Grandfather said he would make sauerkraut and a few folks come up and fill their little lunch bucket thing up to take home to their families.
maybe more later..tired of typing.
