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Mike
Precisely.gregorach wrote:if you look at it in per-capita terms, we're only #62... (And China is #144.)MKG wrote:I haven't sat down and calculated the real import, if any, of those figures. I was just heartened to discover that the UK is not the leading offender in the oil stakes and its relative performance is improving. Perhaps there's hope yet.
I've never understood why we talk about the energy consumption of whole countries like they are single, directly comparable entities. "China" is 1.3 billion people - that's about one-fifth of the entire population of the world - whereas the US is only 300 million people, or a bit less than one-twentieth of the entire population of the world.
I'm pretty sure we will return to that. Where I live, we've seen a major shift of younger families returning to live in the countryside (about 5kms from town), and Im sure this will increase as oil continues to push up the price of everything.baldybloke wrote:When I was a lad pretty much everyone worked within a 10 mile radius of where they lived. Now rural towns have grown whilst local industry has disappeared. Also people have higher expectations, needing to earn more for stuff that is not always a necessity. We need to have a major rethink of how we live.