[bratticus]

How do you tell someone about Peak Oil who you feel needs to know?

Mostly someone in my life that needs to know is someone who I'm trying to develop long-term plans for survival and they are in a position to support me and vice-versa.

[mos6507]

Tell them you have to have a long talk with them. Don't tell them what it's about. Just say it's extremely important and they have to block out at least 2-3 hours to talk. Then just speak from the heart. That's what I did with my mom. Hopefully if that person knows you and respects you they will take what you're saying seriously rather than just rejected it out of turn.

I debated whether to dump a lot of reference material on her, have her watch movies, read books, news clippings, etc... I decided against this. I felt it was better to just tell her that I had been researching this in depth for the last five years and that I am not just a victim of some kind of cult or conspiracy theory.

Don't expect even in that length of time that that person will properly absorb everything you throw at them. It's too much to handle and the inertia in people's lives is too great. They aren't just going to abandon all their life plans immediately and go the doomstead route. There is a gestation process that people have to go through before they come to that conclusion.

[shortonsense]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('bratticus', 'H')ow do you tell someone about Peak Oil who you feel needs to know?

[blukatzen]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('mos6507', 'T')ell them you have to have a long talk with them. Don't tell them what it's about. Just say it's extremely important and they have to block out at least 2-3 hours to talk. Then just speak from the heart. That's what I did with my mom.

[SeaGypsy]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('mos6507', 'T')ell them you have to have a long talk with them. Don't tell them what it's about. Just say it's extremely important and they have to block out at least 2-3 hours to talk. Then just speak from the heart. That's what I did with my mom. Hopefully if that person knows you and respects you they will take what you're saying seriously rather than just rejected it out of turn.

I debated whether to dump a lot of reference material on her, have her watch movies, read books, news clippings, etc... I decided against this. I felt it was better to just tell her that I had been researching this in depth for the last five years and that I am not just a victim of some kind of cult or conspiracy theory.

Don't expect even in that length of time that that person will properly absorb everything you throw at them. It's too much to handle and the inertia in people's lives is too great. They aren't just going to abandon all their life plans immediately and go the doomstead route. [b] There is a gestation process [/b]that people have to go through before they come to that conclusion.

[mos6507]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('blukatzen', '
')I know your mom is probably used to your doom and gloom talk, as we are here, and yet she knows that you are a doting father, and aren't going to go off on a tangent, because of your parental responsibilities.

So, Mos, tell us, how did it go?

[wisconsin_cur]

I am sure many of us can relate.


http://dilbert.com/2009-04-16/

[mos6507]

Wow, everyone's gone doomer lately. Andy Rooney, Glenn Beck and Jon Stewart (mockingly), and now Dilbert. Who's next?

[Ferretlover]

I told three very old (known them for almost four decades) friends, prefacing the "news' with a statement similar to this:
"There's is something that I would like to bring to your attention. It is going to sound very off-the-wall, but, it is one of those things that, if as true and serious as I believe it is, comes true, I could never forgive myself for not giving you a heads-up.
If you want to think I've finally lost it, that's okay."
They are still talking to me.