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I am somewhat agree, but I am a cautious person so I only count the chicken when they have hatchedAh, coffee, but think how much humans invented before there was oil or even coal for power and stock chemicals! Take away all the fossil fuels and humans will soon (in historical time scales - a few generations for people) find natural, alternative resources - we are currently doing so. Yes, we are using oil etc. to produce the kit for "renewables" at the moment but once here are enough renewable sources of energy it may be self sustaining. Plastics are going to be a problem but I bet there are people working on that now, so far it is mainly stuff like environmentally nice packaging based on starches.
Yes, I will gladly doYup, there will possibly be some testing times ahead - tell your son to read science fiction books with an emphasis on dystopian futures and study alternative technologies!
Meanwhile, please check out the following
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-29418983
http://www.populationmatters.org/