Another apoclyptic dream

I had another apocalyptic dream last night. This one was not directly about a nuclear attack. Rather it was plainly obvious that it was set in a scene of a grim nuclear holocaust.
Some of my friends and family were with me. We were running up the stairs of a great auditorium. There was smoke and the building was shaking as it would in an earthquake. We knew that an eruption was going to occur from the ground below and we were running to the top of the building to escape the onslaught. Apparently, the radioactive waste had reached the water table under the city and was exploding on contact resulting in sulphuric eruptions on the ground above. The biosphere had become unstable and there was no safe place to go. Running away from danger seemed very everyday like. That is not to say that there was no adrenalin rush. We were running for our lives. As soon as we reached the penultimate floor, the earth below the building erupted, we managed to get onto the top floor just in the nick of time. Giant waves of molten concrete looking sulphuric radioactive earth rushed up the building in an eruption. It came up to the top floor and cooled off immediately, mid air, a second before we would've been engulfed. The raped earth formed abominable shapes around us, silently screaming at us. I have never been as relieved and horrified all at the same time.

The dream may be fantastic but the potential of a nuclear holocaust in our lifetimes is a real possibility. When the three curves intersect in three decades: Oil production is expected to peak in 2040 (and then fall while demand rises inexorably) exactly when China is expected to overtake the US as the World's biggest Economic power. The Third curve is the peak of nuclear proliferation - it is expected that dozens of states will have nuclear capability by then, including many in the Middle East and Japan. The Washington planners are pretty explicit that they will not tolerate any 'potential challengers' to their 'full spectrum strategic dominance of the globe' (See the last National Security Document). The whole point of the Iraq war is to take control of the oil fields and to use that as a strategic weapon against challengers (no military or industry functions without oil). The Oil Wars in a sense already began when the US conquered Iraq ( yes, conquered) but this is just warm up. Wait for the real action in just a few decades.

If there are historians in the 22nd century, they will call this period of human history, the Oil Age. Perhaps, they will look back with a sense of tragedy and surprise at the lunacy of the 'rational' planners in Washington today.