Mike Ruppert’s new documentary “Collapse” and his book “Confronting Collapse: The Crisis of Energy and Money in a Post Peak Oil World
“It is not possible to continue infinite consumption and infinite population growth on a finite planet,” Mr. Ruppert said. “It is that simple. All bubbles burst, including population bubbles. Maybe five billion people exist on this planet who didn’t exist before we had oil.
“Those people live everywhere, in every country. People here are going to starve and freeze to death as they are doing now in eastern Europe.
“It may hit even worse in some respects here in the United States because our agricultural system and food production is horribly corrupted by fossil fuels, and much of our soil is basically useless without petrochemicals.
“The countries that are less industrialized, less tied into the global economic/financial growth model, will have a better chance. Because their people are farmers now, they’re less reliant on all the products of energy.
“As I sometimes say, if you were going to take a fall, would you rather fall from the penthouse to the gutter, or from the sidewalk to the gutter?”
