Reply #4: Two other words also come to mind

[NickB79]

Dieoff, dieoff, dieoff

Powerdown, powerdown, powerdown

As GliderGuider showed with his graph in this thread (http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=115x88105#88143), we currently get the vast majority of our energy from non-renewable resources. We know oil is peaking as we speak, we know natural gas only has a few years to go after oil peaks, you have posted links indicating uranium may be peaking, and now this shows coal will peak in 15 years or less. At the same time climate change will be devastating farmland and coastal areas around the globe. It seems it will be impossible to sustain our "American" way of life, much less the lives of billions of people around the world, as all of our current energy sources go into decline.

GliderGuider's estimate that world population will top our around 7.5 billion in 2020 and then crash after that to less than one billion by 2100 may actually be an optimistic scenario.