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Consequences.
Ideally, professionals, designers, etc., who contribute to the built environment should always consider the First Law of Thermodynamics. Ideally.

I
started at the bottom. Funny. And this is the GOOD scenario, dawg. What happens if mankind thrives. . .??

Will radiobubble turn...
...aliens into couch potatoes?
http://www.seti.org

Oil is too priceless stuff to...
...be burned...
http://www.peakoil.net/

...so polymers maybe forever, but...
...producing them is not?
http://www.lifeaftertheoilcrash.net/

Amazon Indians and African tribes etc. are...
...probably only true survivors, because their "primitive" lifestyle means they already have learned to live with no oil. At least they make elegant jewellery without gold or silver.
But what happens when they wander to ghost cities of the future (today's megapolises)?
http://www.african-tribes.org/himba-people.html

I wonder who...
...is manufacturer of this jewellery?:
http://shop.survivalinternational.org/c/jewellery

Has anyone seen that Roland Emmerich film...
...from 2004 'The Day After Tomorrow'?
There one of the strongest survivors is already homeless person.
Finnish Night of the Homeless Movement:
http://www.asunnottomienyo.fi/

Jyri...
I wish we would not burn oil and refine it into things we don't need, because its gives off substances that sicken and/or kill us. But increasingly science indicates oil is not scarce, and is a renewing resource. A number of oil fields are recharging with oil that appears to perk up from greater depths. Fossil oil turns out not to be the only kind. Abiotic oil keeps perking up and recharging some fields. The wars to control oil thus appear not only immoral, but increasingly absurd. 🙂

For the most part, we shouldn...
For the most part, we shouldn't be using oil at all (sorry LRF). Especially when it comes to energy production.

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While looking for something else to do with this thread I found this, which is very funny.
Would you like air with that?
http://www.breatharian.com/breatharians.html

If oil is renewing resource, is it then possible....
...that mass-produced plastic homes still have future?
Finnish National Board of Antiquities has preserved one of those Casa Finlandia plastic service stations.
http://www.retrofuture.com/index.php/tag/plastic-homes/

If our civilization, as we today know it, survives...
...The Climate Change, overpopulation and The Oil Crash, then maybe Walking Cities could bring nomadic tribes to The Third Millenium?
http://www.archigram.net/projects_pages/walking_city.html

Jyri
I know it's been suggested to you before, but you would do well with your own blog. You have a knack for finding interesting things on the net.
http://blogspot.com