After the oil crash, we're screwed, well, everyone.

Life will go on, there'll probably be a big, BIG tumult, people going "god, there's no oil anymore", but a few years later we'll probably get used to it, maybe find a new energy resource.

Except, if we find that energy resource before the oil crash...

Another possibility is, that a new world war starts short before the oil crash, 'cause all want the remaining oil.

Probably all just a matter of time, but the true end of the world will be in a long time, when the sun has grown so much that it just melts and "sucks up" the earth.

I think CharrX was refering to the earth melting. More like the earth being destroyed when the sun expands and engulfs the earth.


Thats why CharrX stated it only as a possibility. Nothing for definate. But I'm sure lots of people have imagined wars brought about by nations wanting control of the last remaining drops of oil... So it's not too much of a silly statement!

Over time the world will die, we can't deny this. The question is will humans still be around when it does? Will they perish with it? Or will they have been long gone?

I don't think the planet is in immediate danger right now, but I'm pretty sure that our continuous burning of greenhouse gasses / dumping of litter, chewing gum (that stuff never leaves places!), plastic bottles etc in the streets, and random places can't be helping the earths survival. But I don't think that we're in immediate danger with all of that. The planet isn't going to go boom, pop, poof. Temperatures may change, but such happens naturally anyway over different times.

Human causes for earths destruction? Sure Nuclear war will hopefully never happen. Everyone is too scared to press the button as it WILL mean the end of large scale civilisation in most of the world, as missiles will apparantly fly everywhere and kill everybody.. Even those not involved in the initial conflict will apparantly press their buttons to wipe out random countries etc. It's a bit like a pub brawl apparantly (nudge one person, make him spill his drink over the next person, who hits the guy on his right, so the guy on his right punches the guy behind him who he thought had hit him, and before you know it the whole room is full of drunken fools fighting for reasons everybody has forgotten, or never knew)... Thats the fiction of what will happen in a nuclear war. Thats what animations and parodies of these events tell us.

Will it be this hectic? I think people have probably thought through situations like this quite a bit. There is little point to randomly firing missiles. If people were ever silly enough to fire their missiles at someone, then they're sentencing theirselves to death anyway, and I'm pretty sure most other countries will just stay out of it for their own survival... Besides, there will be other humans that will survive (though in smaller number, and obviously not able to visit large portions of the world).... But yeah a nuclear war would destroy much of the planet when you think about the poisoning of the landscape as well.

The oil crisis is already being controlled by wars - specifically american aggression. That's not going to change, there won't be a "world war" The parts of the word in poverty just now will simply go into fuel poverty. America and her allies will have enough oil to last through to the emergence of a new, comercially viable (profit making) energy resource.

At least, thats my take on it =)

The earth won't die after many years or so, yet the living things on earth may die a few years from now if the release of greenhouse gases and the effects of human activities continue. Combustion of fossil fuels can cause global warming which will then cause climate change that may cause the extinction of the living things on this planet.

well, that's what i think..

Hmm... Considering that the earth has had much worse slimate disasters than anything we could ever cause (think multiple volcanic eruptions destroying the ozone layer & greenhouse gasses at the same time) And life found a way to survive, i'm going to go ahead and predict that life will ALWAYS survive on earth in one form or another. In fact humans could probably survive in one form or another, since we have the ability to create synthetic sunlight, synthetic heat/cold and using those abilities we could easily continue and exapnd life if we were to do so in a protected environment.

Unlikely. Useable comercial oil will be done before you die, unless you plan on dying in the next 40 years =P

you'll live to see the "next big thing" in oil.

I recommend the TS reads "Failed States" by Noam Chomsky, to give him a deeper and more educated understanding of the ways in which corporations, oil companies and governments work together to control the use and supply of oil =)