Chapter 15 - Playing chicken with the Apocalype

In chapter 15, the discussion is on whether the world is going to end and how is all connected to cheap energy. The butterfly theory says that everything causes a reaction and then reacted onto itself. This seem to be true in the case of cheap energy and the world as we know it ending. Mankind depends on the earth in order to be supplied with cheap energy, lots of it, but at the same time the cheap energy comes at a great cost to the earth. The earth supplies the energy by us using the remains of the past inhabitants but it will soon run out and the new supply will have to become us. The earth many not end but the way we live now will definitely change. So we had better watch out because when the earth reacts to all we have done, our lives will definitely change.