Hideaway, a contributor to Tim Morgan’s blog points out that:

We can’t mine, nor farm, nor gather fossil fuels the way we did 60 years ago, we already used up all those easy to get resources, we need the complex technology of 2024 to gather the much harder to obtain resources, all in a world where 6 continent supply chains wont work, and localisation of complex machinery production also wont work, as it takes lots of energy and materials to set this all up, which is less efficient than a few massive factories turning out lots of these ‘widgets’ at present.

Going back to simple local industries of say 1950’s technology, will mean we become unable to mine the minerals and gather the fossil fuels, that now require 2024 technology/complexity to gain access to.

The complexity of how we gather and make everything in the modern world is left out of the story of modern civilization, which means it’s modern civilization that has to unwind very quickly when energy availability is decreasing at an accelerating rate. This of course hastens the fall in production of materials and energy.

What can possibly go wrong with 8 billion hungry, angry, people, mountains of debt, and rapidly decreasing availability of everything made in the modern world?

It will be a mountain of miracles if we get to 2040 intact…