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Have I ever been called a conspiracy theorist?

Of course I've been callled a conspiracy theorist!

But I don't deal in conspiracy theory,

I deal in conspiracy fact.

Somebody said to me a long time ago,

and this was probably back in '84,

climb down off the cross, a**hole,

we need the lumber!

I am not a messiah.

I am not responsible for saving anybody.

the only person I'm responsible

for saving, is me.

What I see now, is the end of a paradigm

that is as cataclysmic as the asteroid event that

killed almost all life on the earth

and certainly the dinosaurs.

Now, the dinosaurs were kings of their paradigm.

And a paradigm is what you think about,

something before you think about it.

Somebody thinks about money, and you

automatically accept without thinking that

compound interest, fractional reserve banking

and fiat currency is ok and we have to protect that

because if we don't protect that,

it's gonna be bad for us.

If you know anything about darwinism,

basically what it said, was that those species

that had evolved, or were able to adapt to changing

circumstances, were the ones that survived,

and those that were not equipped, or had become

evolutionary dead ends, were destined to die.

Mike, you better be careful, it sounds

like you're advocating social darwinism.

I'm not advocating social darwinism,

I am witnessing actual darwinism.

If you're in a camp with a bunch of campers,

uhm, and a bear attacks,

you don't have to be faster than the bear.

You only have to be faster

than the slowest camper.

There is one and only one

graph image that I have used,

in, I would guess, 60 to 70 lectures

in eight countries,

and that's a graph of human population.

And if one looks at that graph,

what you see, is human population

roughly stable at around

a billion people or so.

Then maybe a little bit more,

around the time of Christ.

Then it stays pretty stable, until we get

to the Bubonic-, it starts to rise some,

as some primitive technology emerged,

but then you get to the Bubonic plague,

there's a little dip.

Then after the Bubonic plague, you begin the start

of what we would call the Renaissance,

uhm, and the early stages

of the Industrial Revolution.

Uhm, the discovery of steam,

the population starts to go like this.

The introduction of coal,

the population starts to go like this,

but around 1900, around the turn of the 20th century,

what you see, as oil became ubiquitous,

was that the population went like this.

And it goes up to 6,5 billion people,

we may be at 7 billion people

by the time anyone sees this interview.

All of those people exist

on this planet only because of oil.

So it's axiomatic that if you take the oil away,

the population must go away also.

In all of science, in all of biology,

there is no case where any population,

be it bacteria in a petry dish,

or caribou in an arctic island,

runs into a set of favorable circumstances

and goes to that point,

without an immediate crash,

down.

It's a law. It's a law as fundamental as gravity,

a law as fundamental as thermodynamics,

and if one thinks about it, it might also

be viewed as true of the stock markets,

or the financial markets, which go like this,

and when they go like this,

they automatically go like this.

That's the history of every bubble.

I think it's a mistake,

to ask if people,

and make all people the same as one entity,

if they will understand it.

I don't care if all people understand it.

When you're faced with, uhm, with

an overwhelming life threatening crisis,

as in the Titanic being hit by an iceberg,.

and you happen to be aware before anybody else is,

that the ship is gonna sink,

and there aren't enough lifeboats,

and you know how to build lifeboats,

and you try to deal with that in

however long the Titanic had

before it went down,

you're likely to come across three types

of passenger on the Titanic.

You'll run across a type that's basically

dear in the headlights.

Ship's been hit, what does that mean? What do I do?

I don't know what to do, I don't know where to go.

That's one group.

There's another group that says,

we get that the ship's gonna sink, we get that.

We're all gonna die, unless we make some lifeboats,

and do it fast. Show us what to do.

And then you have a third group,

that says, this is the Titanic,

it's absolutely unsinkable.

Un-f***ing-sinkable.

And, uhm, so we're going back to the bar for a drink

and all you doomsday sayers can actually just take a hike.

Now, if you're the one who knows

how to build lifeboats,

which group of people

are you gonne help?

Certain things are inevitable right now.

FDIC insolvency,

I will tell you, is coming.

Insolvency of the Federal Reserve, is coming.

Federal Reserve can go bancrupt.

Uhm, Treasury bill defaults, uhm, we're looking at

major bancrupty, starvation, dislocation.

All these things are already on the way.

Everything is gonna break down

differently in different places.

The best that I can do, is give you

some ideas of some markers,

that are gonna come.

The bumpy plateau has been described

by peak oil activists and researchers

for many, many years.

And it's actually happening.

Basically, you com up

the growth curve of oil prices,

and the oil prices go up,

until you start running out of oil.

Then what happens, is you have to destroy demand,

which is what's happening.

with this collapse.

Demand gets destroyed, the price of oil drops.

But as you start to recover, you start back up again

and you collide again with the finite oil.

And the rising energy prices, which shuts

everything down again. This is the bumpy plateau.

I think it's fairly certain that the mortal blow

to human industrialized civilization,

will happen when oil prices spike again,

and nobody can afford to buy that oil,

and everything will just shut down.

The collapse must happen fast,

in order to leave infrastructure standing.

We've all heard the stories about infrastructure,

you know, the sewers, the bridges, the roads and all that.

Well, the point is that as economic collapse

continues, or accelerates, those structures

will fall into more disrepair.

There's not gonna be any money or anything

running to fix those,

so what you want to have,

is that change to a new paradigm,

getting the old one out of the way,

while there's still infrastructure left

to start building something new.

We have to survive the transition fase

of human civilization, which I anticipate,

could last anywhere between 20 years,

and oh my god,

would that be fast and hard...

You know, to 50 years, or 100 years,

before some kind of stable civilization

starts to emerge.

You need to survive the transition fase,

so don't panic, don't freak out.

Use your heads, analyze your

local situation where you live,

don't worry about rebuilding sewers,

you're gonna be able to get water for a few years.

People say, there's either oil, or no oil.

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