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Peak Oil – Adapting for Big Changes Ahead
Peak Moment 155: With a long-time eye to declining energy resources, Bart Anderson envisions a very different society in five years. The former editor of Energy Bulletin.net offers advice for post-oil living: Understand the problem. Prepare psychologically for big shifts and the unexpected. Find your niche and get good at it. See what your great grandparents did as a model for living well within limits. "Live poor and learn to do it well" as Bart did as a graduate student. Things will be very different, he said, but we'll make it through.
9 Comments on "Peak Oil – Adapting for Big Changes Ahead"
Davy on Wed, 5th Nov 2014 9:13 am
Good ideas for the “Newbie”. But it is a Heinberg approach to stay optimistic to reach a maximum group and save the reality for the tough. It is consumption for the civilians with the generals knowing the reality of a society shaking campaign with large casualties. It is better to talk tough but positive with inspirations in the Heinberg approach. Generals talk cold and calculated.
Bart was a major influence to my early doomer and peaker background. We need leaders like Bart and Richard that are opto-doomer and peakers but also the doomers that give the down and dirty. I am a down and dirty peaker. I don’t need fluff and sugar. Give me a cold shower over a warm bath.
I am a stoic and spiritual. Spiritual people seek the truth. The general public are into religion which preaches if you do this you will be rewarded. This is not the case. A doomer spiritualist will tell you if you do the right thing you have a better chance of survival but no guarantee. Death needs to be embraced and lived to prepare for the future. This is true normally but more so now. We did it before the early 20th century. We had high death rates with the young, old and poor. We are going back to that.
We are going back to food insecurity. We are going back to hard work with little results. We are going back to health disabling conditions that can’t be treated. Hopefully we are going back to a time with greater foundations of spiritual health along with the bad. I am referring to closer family and communities. I am talking closer relation to nature and our food sources. We will also find the potential to be heroic where now we watch junk Hollywood flicks that glorify war and death.
The paradigm is shifting now under our feet. Right is wrong and wrong is right. One of these days you will wake up to a world that is unrecognizable. The best you can do now is risk management, mental and physical training, and like Bart says “find your niche”.
Plantagenet on Wed, 5th Nov 2014 10:07 am
The world is in an oil glut. No doubt we will hit peak oil eventually, but the timing of peak oil isn’t clear. Will it in come in 3 years? 5 years? 10 years? 20 years?
JuanP on Wed, 5th Nov 2014 10:52 am
This is an entertaining and educational video. I recommend it. I think I watched it when it came out in 2009, but I only very vaguely remembered it, so I watched it again. It’s better than watching TV or reding MSM any day of the week.
I have watched quite a few Peak Moments videos through the years, and have enjoyed them in general.
J-Gav on Wed, 5th Nov 2014 11:21 am
Davy – I generally agree with your post but Bart’s not all “fluff and sugar.” Yes, he does often tone it down, but he also says clearly that most people have no idea how drastically things could change within the next five years.
As JuanP says, it remains a good ‘peak Moment’ episode.
Davy on Wed, 5th Nov 2014 11:53 am
Agreed Gav, you know me well enough to know I get carried away with my doomerism.
J-Gav on Wed, 5th Nov 2014 2:45 pm
Davy – “Doomerism” is Ok with me as long as it doesn’t preclude positive actions in one’s daily life in family and community and, from the description you give of the energy you deploy in that direction, I think you would subscribe to that view.
Davy on Wed, 5th Nov 2014 3:55 pm
Yea Gav, if you are going to opine doom you have to have some mental separation. You have to be grounded with a positive personal net mental worth. IOW you have to be solid spiritually and mentally. If you are not careful you can choose the 45 as the best course of action.
I find being other oriented gives that positive and connecting focus. I have family and friends to take care of and provide for. I am in a sense a care giver for the tribe and family.
If you are a lone wolf doomer you are truly dangerous with yourself and others. We know of multiple examples of dangerous lone wolf types add dommerism to that and it is fuel to the fire.
Aspera on Wed, 5th Nov 2014 5:16 pm
“I find being other oriented gives that positive and connecting focus. I have family and friends to take care of…
If you are a lone wolf doomer you are truly dangerous with yourself and others.”
Well said. This is why I think that the “Well Fed Neighbor” notion is as much about maintaining your own mental and physical vitality as it is about caring for the other(s).
Aspera on Wed, 5th Nov 2014 5:39 pm
… and just to be clear, I meant that by taking care of others is a superb way to maintain our own well-being and vitality.