Water
The Yacht
A symbol of wealth
The raft
The raft makes a one-way trip down-stream to where the wood is used for house and shipbuilding. The workers come back on foot, horseback or by other means.
Ice-breaker
Climate change will allow shipping along the northern coasts of Canada and Russia. Ice breakers will prolong the season - until global warming will make these vessels redundant.
Back to the future Club of Rome style
In the impending post petroleum age our economy will indeed have to
revert to wind power in its original form, using a minimum of
technology.
Some questions remain, however, such as:
- Will we then still have enough trees to construct the ships?
- What will the ships transport?
- What will other countries allow to be exported in a post peak oil
world that is devoid of most resources and the main ioccupation of
people will be to produce food to survive?
- How will countries convert to working predominently in the primary
sector of agriculture, after the end of modern age?
- Will food production be sufficient for the present world population
size, once the input of petroleum and gas for modern industrial
agriculture and crop conversion will have finished?
- Will there be enough work in the primary sector to employ all those
people who become jobless after the end of modernity?
- Will the transition be organised and well-planned or will it be
accompanied by social unrest and violence?
[Image source: www.clubofrome.at/2009/amsterdam/]
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