A Midsummer Night’s Mare

Assemble the right bits of data buttressed with several disciplines of science and eco-politics, and what emerges is a vision so terrifying I hope it is nothing but a dark dream. And in my winter somnolence I despair. The short term does not look promising. The trends are all there, the information easy to assimilate, the darkdream may turn real. Geology and economics have conspired with our behavioral shortcomings to take our complex interdependent culture apart at the petroleum stained seams. The Collapse of the Mighty Oil Empire. The Fall of Petro-Rome. No one can stop Hubbert’s Peak