Peak Oil and America’s Declining Social Capital

With the economic fabric already growing increasingly tattered and the class structure increasingly bifurcated, it seems logical that many people are going to be at a loss due to recession and a decline in the standard of living that is the result of what’s coming.

Therefore, it is an important thought experiment to think about what our society will look like in three, five, even ten years. Let us do it first through the lens of Robert Putnam’s ideas about social capital: the idea that local social networks matter…

More after the jump at the The Oil Drum.