Friday, October 23, 2009  Crystal balls : The Five Year View  A
friend was asking just the other week what a group of us though
was going to happen in the next 5 years and I figured I may as
well jump on the topic and produce the worse case scenario,
after all its expected of me. Then I figured if I’m going to
write this up anyway I may as well post it and see if I can
force them to come read my blog, something they usually avoid
Of course should the others who were asked this question produce
a different scenario I’ll post theirs too. It’s only fair that
it’s not just mine that gets picked apart in public.  Now 5
years is a long time but I think its pretty safe to say that the
most important developments in that time will be centred on just
a few themes which are already an everyday part of my doomer
mantra.  Peak Oil, Financial/Currency crisis, Food shortages,
The unraveling of Globalization and Political instability  Peak
Oil  First of all those not paying attention to me for the last
5-6 years, peak oil