by Liamj » Mon 08 Aug 2005, 05:55:17
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Novus', 'I')t is really too late to prepare for peak oil now unless you are already a farmer/rancher living off the land. So those of us in the cities and suburbs we are as good as dead and our days our numbered. Don't waste your last few years worrying and preparing only to delay the inescapable for a few months if you are lucky. This crisis will likely go nuclear in the end so it is best not to even worry about it. Just enjoy these last few years. Go for a quality life over quantity life. A short life spent enjoying every moment can be better then a long one spent worrying.

And your dark certainty is based on...?
a. Personal difficulty coming to grips with reality.
b. Need for others to think as you do so you don't have to feel conspicuous in your weakness.
c. Experience of previous energy descent epochs (name of planet/previous uincarnation please).
d. 'Inside info' from your toaster.
I have no problem with ppl who don't particularly want to 'make it through' (prob cos i myself regularly reconsider that question).
But going around telling other people theres no point trying is flat out selfish, bordering on evil. Novus could be on average right, but its damn sure not predetermined (not in my universe) and there will be major 'patchiness' in what works and what doesn't.
Christ, people have been slouching around for decades going, "whats the point of it all, theres no meaning..", largely cos cheap energy and social disintegration had made them redundant and alienated. Now we've all GOT to pull together just to keep the stone age at bay, and people are slouching around going, "its too hard, too late, we're not meant to survive, blah blah, wah wah"!
We've all spent years as virtual hero's via hollywood, now we've got a chance at the real thing and.. "its too hard"!!!? Damn right it'll be hard, hopefully even hard enough to wake us up to life.