Still True

[ToledoBass]

Like him, hate him or love him, he tells it like it is! This article is about a year or so old, but worth the read. If you are new to Peak Oil -- read !


http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/7203633/the_long_emergency

[bbketcher]

Better yet, read the entire book. What a wake-up.

[dscottjst]

I have read the "Rolling Stone" article and the complete book, "The Long Emergency."  I agree completely with Mr. Kuntsler's points.

He talks about the the way we have organized American society and primarily the automobile culture.  We have made a way of life (culture) that we cannot and/pr will not change.  Furthermore, this is the way of life that the vast majority of us alive today have always known.  Living any other way is incomprehensible to us.  Don't look to our "leaders" to lead us.  They represent the status quo - the same old, same old.  Life in 2020 isn't going to be pretty as Americans, in particular are forced to adapt to a new reality.

[Chip Haynes]

J. H. Kunslter's web site is at www.kunstler. com, and he usually posts new stuff there every week. (On Mondays, it seems.) He's in New Zealand right now, so hasn't posted anything this week, but he is a hoot to read. Hates suburbia and easy credit, and I think he has a point on both counts. We disagree on where the best place to be might be when it all hits the fan, so I'm hoping he's wrong on that one. (He's in upstate New York, I'm in west central Florida.)

But yes, Jim Kunstler is a must-read.

[Sensei]

Like him, hate him or love him, he tells it like it is! This article is about a year or so old, but worth the read. If you are new to Peak Oil -- read !


http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/7203633/the_long_emergency

That article, linked from Fark.com is what actually led me here.  It alarmed me so much that I left work early because I couldn't think about anything else. 

[Chip Haynes]

Sensei- It's very easy to let this subject overwhlem you. After almost ten years of research, I still read new stuff that worries me (and no, I won't burden you with that sort of stuff just yet). It's kind of a shock to look out the window at all the cars and people and traffic and movement and commerce and wonder how much of it will still be here in ten years. Just promise yourself that YOU will be here, and then do what needs to be done to make that happen.

Like, for instance, don't buy a Winnabago, no matter how good a deal it might be.

Little things like that.