Paige+Anderson+-+World+Without+Oil

Living in a world without oil would be like living several decades ago. None of us would have the pleasures that we enjoy now and almost everything we own now would stop being produced. Toys, clothes, make-up, cars, food, and who can forget dice! All of these things would most certainly stop being produced. Well not completely but I'm pretty darn sure that they'll decrease in quantity. Everything we're used to doing now would all have to be changed. Those car rides I take everyday to go to school in the morning and then back home in the afternoon would stop. Petroleum would be too expensive. I couldn't just take a cab to Jenny Lou's five minutes away to buy some candy, but instead I would walk or bike. Not that its a bad thing. I think the world deserves an oil peak. People today, at least those who have money, can't even fathum the concept of no oil. Sure we know what would be taken away from us, but we wouldn't know how to deal with it. If we were to ever live in a world without oil, the only way we could survive is if the transition was EXTREMELY slow. It's kind of like being a baby again. We're so used to everything the way it is that re-learning how to live would almost be impossible. There would be a heck of a lot more bicycles and definitley an increase in the amount of walkers. Which would most likely result in a much skinnier population. This is probably a good thing (ahem america...) Like I mentioned earlier, we can't even imagine what a world without oil would be like. We have the facts, we know what would happen, but knowing what it would truely be like is of course impossible. I don't even know where to start exactly. Although a majority of our products would halt in their production, we would still have those things that were originally oil. Hoarding would be something people would have to get used to. I'm not sure if this could be done, but perhaps those things that we own which are made from oil, could be broken down back into oil. No matter what, life would change incredibly. The only way we can prepare for it is if we start now. Which is hard enough, what with all those products we own that we just can't let go of. People just need to let go of their current lifestyles if they want to create a sustainable life in the future.