[Colorado-Valley]

I'm pretty much done with my preparations and unless attacked by suburban Mad Maxers, I plan to survive whatever comes and will be highly enthused if the world can recover from this 100 years of insanity and environmental destruction caused by oil, energy fever and the severe overpopulation of the planet.

I remember the '50s and '60s, and the world was still a beautiful, healthy place back then. The American West, in particular, was simply a wonderful region, impossible to describe without using the word reverence.

As a journalist, the coming years will be fascinating to me. How will governments cope? Will the big-boxes go away and allow Main Street and local manfacturing to return? Will the ugly and unhealthy industrial agriculture fade into oblivion, allowing farms to return to America? Will the Interstate highway system grow over with wildflowers? Will culture start to return to a world grown listless and sickened by mass media, corrupted government and millions of sodium-vapor lights blotting out our view of the Milky Way?

I guess what I am is an optimist hoping for a die-off scenario to save us from ourselves and restore the world to its natural balance.

[turmoil]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Colorado-Valley', 'I') guess what I am is an optimist hoping for a die-off scenario to save us from ourselves and restore the world to its natural balance.

[Specop_007]

[Raxozanne]

Count me in.

[seldom_seen]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Colorado-Valley', 'I') guess what I am is an optimist hoping for a die-off scenario to save us from ourselves and restore the world to its natural balance.

[BorneoRagnarok]

Why don't someone create more Chernobyls and natural will heal itself with radioactive resistant animal. Human will never come near again except this hot radioactive chick.

After 18 years

[Specop_007]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('BorneoRagnarok', 'W')hy don't someone create more Chernobyls and natural will heal itself with radioactive resistant animal. Human will never come near again except this hot radioactive chick.

After 18 years

[killJOY]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'I') guess what I am is an optimist hoping for a die-off scenario to save us from ourselves and restore the world to its natural balance.

[BorneoRagnarok]

Dieoff is bad for human. However without human, animals and fauna can survive in an highly radioactive environment. By the way, Iranian people can stand higher level of radiation than normal people.

Elana the hot chick sucks all the radioactive dust to bring us post dieoffs pictures.Enjoy!!

The land of wolfs

http://www.angelfire.com/extreme4/kiddo ... ter27.html

[gg3]

Die-off is defeat, and only slightly better than kill-off (involuntary mass "euthanasia"). That is, surrender is only slightly better than doing your adversary's work for him by shooting your own people.

In the end we will fight to sustain, and we will cooperate more than the naysayers can possibly imagine. If history is any guide, our species will survive to tell the stories for generations.

[Heineken]

We can hope that what is bad will die off and what is good will survive, but the reality may be sadly different. As your own post suggests, Colorado, much has already been lost. And the Wal-Mart/Sheetz QuikShopper civilization is going to do a lot more damage in its death throes.

I know that I will take personal satisfaction in some of the changes that are coming, even if they kill me. For one thing, I want to see the cornucopians' horn of plenty stuck up their stupid butts. I want to see the neocons universally reviled. I want to see rednecks riding bicycles.

[Dukat_Reloaded]

Great post

[Heineken]

Thanks, dukat. You're a great new member, and I'm glad you're with us.

[Aaron]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('dukat', 'G')reat post

[Bedevere]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Specop_007', 'R')ussia might be thinking of it.
I prefer Americas reactors because there meltdown proof. Cant beat a 100% safe reactor.

[bart]

Sorry guys, I think doomerism is doomed.

1. If the Peak Oil don't get you, then Global Warming will.

2. Even with the die-off scenario, there will be wars, depressions, diseases... no one will be immune, no one can hide.

3. Politically, doomerism is insane. For quite a while, central governments will have access to fossil fuels and power, with the potential for good or evil.

4. Morally, doomerism is the pits. So, you will stand by and let hundreds of millions die, without lifting a finger? How will you be judged by history?

5. The complete lack of historical consciousness is amazing. In previous eras, nations were quite able to deal with severe cutbacks in resources. In our own era, Cuba is an outstanding example -- whether you agree with its politics or not. Many nations in WW2 endured severe cutbacks. The key is whether a society can muster the co-operative spirit to deal with challenges. Physical resources are secondary.

I guess this is where I part company with the peakoil.com folks. I'm sorry to see most of you go down this path, but good luck anyway.

My best,
Bart

[turmoil]

(adios)

[eric_b]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Colorado-Valley', '
')(...)
Will culture start to return to a world grown listless and sickened by mass media, corrupted government and millions of sodium-vapor lights blotting out our view of the Milky Way?

[Specop_007]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Bedevere', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Specop_007', 'R')ussia might be thinking of it.
I prefer Americas reactors because there meltdown proof. Cant beat a 100% safe reactor.

[mgibbons19]

You ppl are fucked up. You want to help the environment so bad, go jump off a bridge.

Be careful what you wish for.