The world, including the Middle East, is running out of crude oil

Why is it that ignoramuses like you always make complete fools of yourself with your demeaning, uneducated rants? How is that going to help accomplish anything? Do you see the article calling oil companies and consumers ass faces? No - because what good does it do?

And your argument is ridiculous - just because we live in an oil-based society with goods created from oil-based processes doesn't mean we have to stay that way. On the contrary - it shows us how much work we have left to do to change - how our infrastructure is mired in old, environmentally damaging ways.

As an analogy - during the Nazi regime, as a German, would you have supported the Nazis simply because everything around you was created by and for the Nazis? I know this is an extreme example, but it's partially to illustrate how ridiculous your argument is.

Finally - global warming, more accurately named climate change - doesn't have to do with everything getting hotter - it has to do with changes in climate as a result of the impact we've made on our planet? The result? Massive displacement of people - ie. climate refugees.

You want some facts?

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report that eleven of the last twelve years (1995–2006) rank among the twelve warmest years in the instrumental record of global surface temperature (since 1850). Warming is most pronounced in higher northern latitudes, and land areas have warmed faster than oceans.

And I hope you don't have kids, or are planning to (not just because you're a self-proclaimed @ss face, but because here's what they may face in the coming decades):

• Towards 2050, around 150 million people around the world may be forced to leave home as a result of climate change. Some 75 million of these climate refugees will come from the Asia Pacific region, and this number could rise to 150 million by 2100.
• Some 26 million people have been forced to leave their homes as a direct result of climate change and a million more are added to this figure every year due to climate-related circumstances. Insular communities such as Vanatu, Tuvalu and the Gulf of Bengal have been forced to flee from the rising sea level.
• It is calculated that the number of people affected by climate-related humanitarian crisis will rise by 54% to 375 million by 2015. This would threaten to overwhelm the global capacity for response.
• Disasters have a disproportionate impact on poor communities in developing countries. For example, while only 11% of those exposed to hazards live in developing countries, 53% of disaster mortality occurs in those countries.
• Climate change could reduce the GDP of vulnerable countries by one fifth by 2030 if we do not take urgent measures.
• Climate change has caused an average of 150,000 deaths per year, due to different illnesses, since the 1970s, with half of all cases occurring in Asia.
• The rise in temperatures will make it impossible to work at the same rate on hot summer days without severe consequences to health, causing serious damage to laborers paid by the hour and to the economy in general. Tropical cities such as Delhi could suffer a 30% decline in labor productivity.
• Developing countries are expected to bear between 75-80% of the costs of harmful climate change though they are least responsible for causing the crisis.
• Climate impacts already cost countries an estimated 1-12% of GDP each year and this could rise to 19% by 2030.

Source of facts: Corresponsables.com Climate Facts and Figures

You are so stupid. Open your eyes.

Hi Ben, Yes, thanks for your support. We're doing our best to write articles in our spare time. The environment is a huge priority, and we're going to spend much of 2009 dedicating more resources to Earth's Friends. Stay tuned!