I believe your assertions about the prospect of our country (and for the over consuming first-world countries in general) are correct, bitRAKE. We will have a rough transition into living for ourselves once again. Done will be the days of driving 10 to 30 miles to your office job which supplies money to buy food and goods for everyday living. This system has too many holes in it and it leaks far too much.

We will become more direct and one with the land. Instead of large farms producing food for thousands and thousands of people, I believe it is more practical for each or a smaller group of households to have a farm or large garden to supply food for themselves. This liberates us from the need to drive somewhere to make money which then is purchase food which was also shipped from somewhere else to a location where you must drive to in order to achieve possession.

This is only one example of the many changes that will happen to the world's societies. As we decentralize and become more independent, self sufficient entities, government will become less powerful, and eventually I see it evolving into more of a societal guideline for moral behavior in an area. This is one reason the government tries to push more industrialism, consumerism, and large commercial capitalism. Keeping the need for regulations preserves the need for government. Specific countries and borders will no longer be such big issues, and people will [hopefully] become more harmonized with each other.

Unfortunately before we develop such an enlightened and free society we must see a need to, and though some of us can accept the need, others are too entrenched in every-day living, trying to support a family and themselves, to take a step back and see whats going on can and must be changed. Others still refuse to accept a need for change because they are blind that their drive for more 'stuff' and more 'money' is a mere veil of distorted reality engendered by their false identity (ego) with material possessions and physical manifestations. Something universally threatening must occur, which shakes the very bones of every man in every society, before the need for change will become apparent and accepted. I only wish we could avoid this fate, but unfortunately it is the only conclusive answer I have come to.

Just my two cents.

Well, that is the very thing I will not accept: I will not demonize others and I will not prophetize the need for some apocalyptic event. Polarization is the very thing that de-harmonizes, imho. Instead we should look at the cycle that has been created and not count ourselves out of having an effect on that process (the good, bad and ugly).

You say decentralization, but I'd rather like to see it as re-localization. This is a great opportunity to build communities with all the positives of ancient tribes while still sharing on the global scale. No governance required should be the label on the box! [This is not a vote for Anarchy - although that would be better than what we have.]

I don't know about the whole morality thing. When it comes to people there is no general moral foundation - we need ethical processes that examine each instance with respect and understanding. Morality is a local (family, community, etc) phenomenon that cannot be institutionalized. Judgements are always wrong because each of us is changing and communication takes time. Isn't this our judicial system? [I'm not even going to talk about the Prison industry.]

To have one ego call another ego 'false' is just absurd! We are self-manifesting our destiny by calling whatever occurs by the names of the prophecies we have created; and then we get to talk of progress as we re-define things. [look at the hydrogen 'fuel' movement; global warming; etc] Yet, nothing has changed - that is the ultimate waste. To bring people together out of fear is the false "super-ego" at work - a cultural or collective conscience trait, and not a malady of any individual. [I really hope that is what you mean. I'm accepting of the idea that I'm full of shit - trying to make a distiction between individual fear and group fear is at best dubious.]

Did you realize my response also tries to metaphorically outline my TPU theory? Talk about insane! :-p

By terribly drastic I could mean a mass ditributed overunity device, world energy companies will freak, and countries economic structures will fall apart. I think thats pretty damn drastic...

I am genuinely concerned about the world having depleted its oil reserves and what that means for all of us ordinary folks and those much less fortunate than us. I am optimistic though, I believe that we are surrounded by untapped sources of energy.

Don't be. the Alarmists have been talking this peak oil doom and gloom from the time the first oil well was drilled.

People still  believe  a 200 year old theory that oil is made by dead dinosaurs, and other little organic bits billions of years old.  None of that is remotely true.  One oil field in Saudi Arabia would have had to have  500 billion dead dinosaurs somehow die and fall in the exact same spot to produce the oil in it if you were to believe that rediculous theory. Imagine how many dinosaurs there would have to have been living on earth to fill all the oil fields on earth. 
It must have been an awfull crowed place, the prehistoric earth, with dinosaurs packed like sardines on every square inch of land, just to fill the oil fields in use now of the same geological age.

The real truth is oil is constantly being produced far deeper in the earth than anyone has previously thought. The oil we find is the stuff that slowly finds it's way up from these depths and pools in  reservoirs along fault lines.
The fact is, we don't really know how much <a href="http://www.gasresources.net/index.htm"><b>abiotic</b></a> oil is produced by the earth.  When we find that out we will find out what "peak oil" is, and what the maximum yearly limit we can extract of this never ending resource.

Oil isn't  organic, in fact the only thing organic in oil is the contaminants it picks up as it moves through the outer layers of the earths crust where all this "dead dinosaur" material is.  All that stuff produces is a bit of methane gas.

Russian and Ukrainian scientists have discovered the true sources and nature of oil long ago,  around 1951 which was then used to discover the vast oil fields in Syberia, and to further prove the theories of abiotic  oil formation.  much has been written about this, but for some reason has been largely ignored by the west in favor of the 200 year old dinosaur juice theory.  I think you can imagine why it would be advantagous  for big oil to have people think we are always on the verge of 'peak oil".

There are  limitations to overcome  in order to reach richer deposits of oil, namely drilling through a very hot  putty like layer of granite; but research has been ongoing and several proof holes, such as <a href="http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/dp5/inner1.htm#s2"><b>on the Kola Peninsula</b></a> have been drilled, which have also disproved many other theories of how the earth is constructed.

Beyond  certain depths, the rock cools and becomes less dense, as well as vains of extremely dense and salty heavily calciumated water  is found. It is now thought that these waters, released suddenly during catastrophic events are what formed much of the limestone and calcium deposits found on the surface of the earth, not billions of years of microscopic sea shells, which also explains the lack of any organic evidence found in many deposit sites around the world, including Englands vast deposit. These deep sources of  super dence water are now thought to have caused rapid shifting of the earths crust, not the slow billion year theory of plate tetonic theory. 

There is a lot of  so called 'scientific" B.S. being purposely  fed the sheeple in order to keep them ignorant and fearfull, and  for several reasons by groups with adgenda's that are not in the best interest of mankind. So, at least in regards for your worries about oil,  your main concern should be how badly we are being gouged for something we have a vast abundance of.  You'll learn much and find many interesting other bits of information following those links.

As far as "zero point" and energy from the vaccum" stuff, don't waste your time. It's mainly a excersize in measuring the tinyest potential differences in negatively and positively charged protons. In order to find a usefull source of "energy from the vaccum" you'd need an entire universe that has a negative chage, and another entire universe with a positive charge, and a way to hook a couple wires to them, which would then set off a vast chain reaction and collapse both universes,  or our own, perhaps instantly! (in theory, sort of like a reverse of the "big bang" theory)

We already can create this phenominum on a usefull scale, we call it a battery.

Many people seeking over unity, do not have, or forgotten the basic fundamentals of what electricity is.  Negative and positively charged electrons.  to create a potential difference and to thus make 'work", you have to create an imbalance, remove one from one and add it to another other. it will then try equalize itself. this takes work however. you don't get something for nothing. 
Unity is getting the same amount of work back that you put in.  Overunity is getting more  back than you put in, without creating an imbalance that seeks to restore things back to normal. This is explained in lens' law why it can't be done.

There is nothing  in this entire universe that gets something from nothing.  In fact this entire universe will someday end, because it is like a vast  wound up clock, (much more complicated of course) it began with a large imbalance which is slowly restoring itself to the state it was in at the moment of it's creation.
The sun is a giant and very obvious example of this, and if you study everything else in this universe, you will see the same thing happening everywhere.


 

Yes we are overpopulated. Too much so. We have created and environment for ourselves which is unnaturally fertile, and as such we take away from the life of other species and organisms. There are simply too many humans all fighting to get as much as they can from everyone else.

And regarding your earlier posts, it doesn't matter where oil comes from or how long it will last, we have to be responsible and stop using it all together. The same goes for coal, natural gas, and nuclear energy as well (though nuclear energy is probably the best of them all, but is far more dangerous if not handled correctly). These products produce harmful effects which aren't temporally specific to our times, which makes them all the more dangerous. We won't necessarily see effects from the oil we burn today in our lifetimes, and perhaps not even our children's lifetimes, but we have to go beyond our egotism and false sense of superiority and uphold the responsibility to seize the use of oil and other non-renewable resources all together.

You need to get off your fantasy for a 'fallout' like aftermath, and realize it won't be beneficial to you or the earth to perpetuate our self-destructive tendencies which brought us to the collapsed state in the first place. Stocking up on resources and trying to gain an advantage over the rest will only hurt you and our successors in the long run. It is nothing more than a physical manifestation of a false egoic image withheld by most of the world, the same one that has created the corruption and destruction we are faced with today.

What I would suggest to you my dear friend would be to stop, step back, and look at what the root of the problem is. View beyond the physical, and enter the profound. It is not a physical cause which has created these physical effects. It was not what we did that got us here, it is how we were and how we are that did. Meditate, and you will see that the 'you' who you have come to know and identify with is merely a product of our ego-driven society, and is a sad and upset identity to which we have seemingly become perpetually bound. We need to break our bonds, and integrate our ego's into our true, loving identities in a healthy way.

Just my two cents.