The desert was advancing by a mile or two a year.

There are already 5.5 billion mobiles in the world.

leaving lower quality coal that is less energy dense.

They are the backbone of our life.

The issues of energy shortages, resource depletion, topsoil loss, and pollution are all symptoms of a single, larger problem

So let's project this analogy going forward.

And so that is my story.

But if we have no connection whatsoever with the worlds beyond the one we take for granted, then we too run the risk of drying up inside.

Get some. Quench your thirst on that.

Sometimes it can even completely obstruct the blood vessel.

I'm always thirsty.

Well, it was pretty close. It was life or death.

GLOBAL MlLITARY EXPENDlTURE RlSES EVERY YEAR, NOW OVER 2 TRlLLlON

So 16 years later, not only have we run out of IPv4 address space but we're also now absolutely compelled to implement the new one so we can continue to grow the network.

And it's destined to collapse for many reasons kind of Malthusian reasons that you run out of resources.

Do we have a contingency plan if we run out of tylium? We would...

America's massive Ogallala aquifer has fallen so low that many farmers have had to return to less productive dry land farming.

Many trees died during the long drought.

And it declined very fast a classic boom and bust fishery, which suggests that a stock has been depleted or there's low reproductive rates.

Is it no longer mine to command?

Five moons, five zeroes. I'm getting thirsty just thinking about it.

After 140 years of conflict and 100 years of dry streams, a circumstance that litigation and regulation has not solved, we put together a market based, willing buyer, willing seller solution a solution that does not require litigation.

It's ideas, it's innovation, it's technology that will end the age of oil, long before we run out of oil.

So basically the whole process of destruction had gone a bit slower than what is happening now with the oil palm.

You let it die!

He used the example of a common grazing area in which each person by simply maximizing their own flock

I mean, surely with wind and solar and nuclear we could use all of this and the depletion of oil really isn't a problem?

Are you thirsty?

I'm thirsty.

We did a mass energy balance if they use brick, they will lose all their soil and burn all their coal.

Agent Orange!

I'm thirsty.

I'm thirsty.

I got thirsty.

I am thirsty.

Do you want a drink?

We dabbled and babbled,

He's thirsty.

Over in California at the Post Carbon Institute, there is a man who has advised business, industry and governments on how to cope with oil depletion.

Women's health, from a federal funding standpoint, sometimes it's popular, sometimes it's not so popular.

It's dead!

It could have gone either way.

So they can actually inflate it and deflate it according to their emotions.

I'm thirsty.

I am thirsty.