[ChefBoyardee]

As I was flying a Dash 8 today I peered out of the right cockpit window. The stark, rugged beauty of Ontario's landscape fascinates me. Before me, as far as the eye could see, was a paintaining of snow, rocks, lakes and stunted trees. From 17,000 feet I began to think about what I was looking at.

I realized that we were flying over the Canadian treeline. There were pockets of trees interrupted by lakes and rocks. A little further on was another pocket of trees. Looking in a different direction this jigsaw puzzle of forests was not as evident. Perhaps a few miles away the landscape looked similar to that found a couple hundred miles south. There was no clear, distinct line where one could say with certainty where this treeline began.

My observation about the Canadian treeline is a truth that is self evident. Still, it made me realize on a deeper level that Peak Oil too will be hard to distinguish from the 'ground level'. Some will not believe because things will seem stable in their immediate surroundings. Others will be sounding off the 'alarm', seemingly prematurely, because of the 'lakes and rocks' of high prices and diminished supply. What ever the excuse may be the slow spiral towards this watershed event is unavoidable and will become more evident as time goes on.

Not that anyone here on this forum doesn't already know this. I just wanted to share with all of you my thoughts and observations from a slightly more elevated view.

Chef Boyardee

[kadoomsoon]

Keep your visions on the forest and you will see the treeline, step back and get the big picture.

[Lighthouse]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('ChefBoyardee', 'A')s I was flying a Dash 8 ...

[steam_cannon]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('ChefBoyardee', 'S')till, it made me realize on a deeper level that Peak Oil too will be hard to distinguish from the 'ground level'. Some will not believe because things will seem stable in their immediate surroundings. Others will be sounding off the 'alarm', seemingly prematurely, because of the 'lakes and rocks' of high prices and diminished supply.

[steam_cannon]

The Dash 8

The Dash 8 looks like a fun aircraft

We have a number of pilots here, I wonder if that's a part of peak oil psychology. A tendency to see the big picture, either by seeing it figuratively or literally. I know I like to get up on top of mountaintops to see everything put together down below...

Some random pictures...

On a mountain you can start to really think about what's going on.


But it's a lot harder to see the big picture sipping slurpys in the 7/11 down below.

[ChefBoyardee]

The northern communities I fly into are very remote. Towns like Moosonee, Moose Factory, Fort Albany, Kashechewan and Peawanuk are not sustainable in a post PeakOil world as we know them today. Without oil these communities will face challenges. Every time we fire up the Jet A1 sucking turbines I think about this. Every time I look at these communities from altitude I become painfully conscience of this.