The day the drilling stopped

“There is a deafening silence from the world of dentistry on the subject of Peak Oil.”

Some sentences are so great, they need no context or elaboration. They can just be appreciated, like a great blue heron rising from a forest pond.

But that is not how we do things around here.

Rob Hopkins, the proprietor of the blog Transition Culture, seems like a well-meaning guy who is concerned about the potentially disastrous implications of peak oil upon human civilization, and who has made it his life