[linlithgowoil]

26 yrs, wife, two very young children (both less than 2 yrs), training to be a lawyer, unbelievable amount of debt. live in linlithgow, scotland - the place where Mary Queen of Scots used to stay, but was born in Uphall, Scotland - coincidentally, the place with some of the first Shale Mines in the world run by Paraffin Young. The area is scattered with large spent shale bings (hills) .

ive spent the last 8 years training to be a lawyer and ive recently realised that i hate it. doubt there'll be much use for lawyers soon anyway - no one will be able to afford them.

a job as a park ranger at my local country park just came up though - im going to apply and hopefully get it, its a great park and within walking distance of my house.

i'd say i am right wing on some things, left wing on others. im socialist, but i'm catholic and dont believe in abortion etc. i believe a woman's place is in the home (unless she desperately doesnt want to be in the home) and family is the most important thing to me. i took a test once and i was described as a 'statist' - this is a viewpoint that believes in 'big' government in order to redistribute wealth and to promote moral values. i detest secularism though... it should just be called anti-religionism or something.

i also detest consumerism, capitalism and most people that i meet.

[Dvanharn]

63 y/o white male jobhopper with some Native American blood with a female partner of 10 years who shares my concerns about the future. I am a UC Berkeley graduate with B.S. degree in Conservation of Natural Resources, 1976 at the age of 36. My awareness of the looming shortages of resources and the dangers of overpopulation and environmental pollution and degradation lead me to my course of study at Berkeley.

I consider myself a pragmatic moderate leaning somewhat to the left, but wary of big corporations corporations and government bureaucracies, and the general selfishness of western corporate and government leaders. I have worked doing network and desktop computing support for major corporations in SF, including executive support (up to senior VP) as part of some of my contracts. Employers included Pacific Gas & Electric, Wells Fargo Bank, Bank of America, the Pacific Stock Exchange, Delta Dental Insurance, and Chevron Corporation. In 1999, I was invited to sit in on an executive summary meeting of Chevron's corporate planning group in 1999 to listen to the overview report of the planning for the next 5 years. I was also responsible for evaluating CD-ROM-based (a new technology) offerings of global petroleum resource information, including products from Petroconsultants, the company Colin Campbell's worked for.

I am currently working in sales for an alternative energy company, living in a progressive community in Northern California, and working with a local community postcarbon planning group. I have met Richard Heinberg several times, even at the local grocery store. I've also met Julian Darley and Dave Room of the Postcarbon Institute, and helped them at their table at the Real Goods Solfest event in August of last year.

I hope to help with the peak/post peak trials and tribulations of my family, particular the younger ones who will suffer from their parents' blind belief that the "robust" U.S. economy will continue to grow for many, many years.

I discovered dieoff.org 3 years ago, and realized that the global resource and environmental problems that we thought might start surfacing in the 1970's were finally on the horizon. I discovered peakoil.com last spring, and find it to be an invaluable international resource for those preparing for the consequences of peak oil, and when we try to enlighten and educate those who are naive about what we are facing.

The single best thing about this web site is the opportunity to hear the opinions of, and communicate with, people from many other places around the world.

Dave

[BabyPeanut]

How dreary to be a Peanut Baby!
How public, like a legume
To tell your name the livelong day
To an admiring mushroom!

[Itch]

I'm a twenty-two-year-old male Leftist, Fascist, Communist, Jihadist, White Supremist, Maoist, Leninist, Dominionist, Baathist, Cyclist, Scientist, Racist, Motorist, Capitalist, Pacifist, Activist, Taoist, Trancedentalist, Anarchist, Atheist, Socialist, Rapist, Romanticist, Therapist.

I am also quite pissed because there was a twist in the cyst on my wrist and fist.

In reality I'm just a guy who would find some comfort if there were a lot less fuckin' people around.

[marko]

I am 40-something, gay, and to the left of liberal. In European terms I am somewhere between social democrat and green. In US terms (and I live in the US) I am a radical leftist.

[arocoun]

I'm 19 years old, male, anarchist, anti-capitalist, strong individualist, agnostic, and a lover of the wilderness. I'm about 7/8 caucasian (don't know which countries) and 1/8 indigenous American (don't know what tribe(s)). Currently in college.

Too bad that poll doesn't work. Why not just create a new thread?

[johnmarkos]

New political thread:

http://www.peakoil.com/fortopic4595.html

[MarkL]

I'm a paranoid schizophenic

[oowolf]

56, former green-libertarian. DISENFRANCHISED BY SO-CALLED HELP AMERICA VOTE ACT. Don't really care; now consider politics irrelevant-like arguing who's gonna be captain AFTER HITTING THE ICEBERG. Known about coming resource depletion crisis since 1970's. Religion: no organized, probably naive animist if anything (spirit guide: wolf of course)

[uNkNowN ElEmEnt]

37, environmentalist, just left of center, spirit guide: frog (go figure). divorced mom three kids, two cats, wannabe hermit, been there, done it, wrecked it, then came back to kick its ass.

Knows the real definition of insantiy is not when you talk to yourself, or when you argue with yourself but when you give yourself the silent treatment. everything else comes and goes with little notice.