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p on June 28, 2007 - 3:07am

The Second World War is not a good guide to this coming event. The only guidance the Second World War can offer is how the people of the UK managed through the Battle of the Atlantic with respect to domestic food production and rationing.

O, but that wasn't the point I'd tried to get across. It's more that even in retrospective one can still differ about defining a historical period.

But now that I think about it: The dutch famine of 1944, the socalled "hongerwinter" probably gives some guidance. The German occupier more or less forbade transportation of food.

My perents were kids back then. My father was sent to spend the winter at a farmer my grandfather knew and my mother remembered seeing people die. My mother always thought of throwing leftovers away as a sin. I inherited that somehow, I always reuse leftovers.

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p on June 28, 2007 - 3:31am

I'd like to add to that that the dutch famine mainly occured in cities. This was not a food production problem, it was a transportation problem, even if initiated by the occupying forces. With that regard I find it odd that peakoilers have so little attention for something which I think has even more impact with regard to coming events then mere population growth: Next year more than half of the worldpopulation will live in cities.

To give yo an idea why that fact might have more impact then population growth as such let us take a look at Sofia, capital of Bulgaria. While the overall population of Bulgaria is declining the number og inhabitants of Sofia is actually increasing.

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p on June 28, 2007 - 4:54am

I find it odd that peakoilers have so little attention for something which I think has even more impact with regard to coming events then mere population growth: Next year more than half of the worldpopulation will live in cities.

O dear, me and my big mouth..

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