X-Message-Number: 30738
From: Francois <>
Subject: Ee: Web site recommendation
Date: Sat, 17 May 2008 21:23:55 -0400

>I think it is worth while for cryonics organizations consider the
>downside of rapidly rising energy prices on the toboggan ride down
>from peak oil.  How cryonics will fare in the middle of a 6.5 billion
>die off is anyone's guess.

I would like to offer the following comment. In debates on subjects such as 
global warming, world wide pandemics or, as in this case, peak oil, you 
usually have the pessimists, who predict the end of the world, and the 
optimists, who say everythig is ok, don't worry your pretty little heads 
about it. Each side has endless supplies of statistics, simulations, 
historical facts, scientific arguments and logical demonstrations proving 
that they are right and the other side is wrong, if not terminally stupid.

Reality, of course, is always somewhere in between. With peak oil, for 
instance, there will obviously not be a 6.5 billion die off, nor will or 
civilization be able to continue with business as usual for very long. A 
reasonable expectation would be conditions like what existed in Great 
Britain during WW2, with severe rationing of food, water, energy and travel 
for some time, until practical alternative energy sources are finally 
deployed. We'll just have to do without our SUV's and wide screen TVs until 
then. Hardship and social unrest, yes, Eden or Doomsday, I don't think so.

Francois

Good health is merely the slowest
possible rate at which one can die. 

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