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93 comments on DrumBeat: December 24, 2006

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klee on December 24, 2006 - 9:02am Permalink | Subthread | Comments top
I would like to take this opportunity to thank all of the wonderful, knowledgeable and hardworking people who take the time to share their expertise here on TOD to help social (pseudo?) scientists such as I  better understand this complex and multifaceted issue.

Best wishes to all of you for the Holiday.

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Don Sailorman on December 24, 2006 - 9:08am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
Ditto!
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hummingbird on December 24, 2006 - 9:52am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
Me too!
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creg on December 24, 2006 - 10:14am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
Thanks for this site/work from another pesudo scientist who needs the analysis & community for our energy descent. Thanks again.
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Laurence Aurbach on December 24, 2006 - 10:53am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
Thanks to all Oil Drum personnel for running the best peak oil blog on the planet. Thanks especially to Leanan for her tireless daily work in the trenches of the information byways, separating the gold from the dross for the edification of us all. Best wishes for 2007!
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conrad on December 24, 2006 - 1:21pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
ditto!
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davebygolly on December 24, 2006 - 1:35pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
Yes, me too. And may the reality-based community continue expanding in the coming year.
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joewp on December 24, 2006 - 9:57pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

Allow me too to "Me too!".

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JMG on December 24, 2006 - 1:45pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
Ditto as well and best wishes for 2007 from a (pseudo?) scientist mostly on the biological side of the fence.

By the way, what do the TOD folk recommend for those last minute shoppers among us (sort of following in the footsteps of the rest of society in not doing anything about an oncoming problem until the last minute)?

If you could give one gift to maximize the resilience/survivability of the recipient, what would it be?

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klee on December 24, 2006 - 1:49pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
John Seymour's "The Self Sufficient Life and How to Live It:  The Complete Back-To-Basics Guide."

Its inspiring and wide ranging and just a fun read as well.

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Jason Bradford on December 24, 2006 - 2:43pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
I second the John Seymour book.  Also, his "Forgotten Arts and Crafts."

Another good one is "When Technology Fails" by Stein.

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JMG3Y on December 25, 2006 - 2:15am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

Interesting suggestions. Surfing on these brings up interesting websites:

John Seymour's Self Sufficiency Network He passed away at the age of 90 in 2004 and just prior to passing completed a new version of the book (wiki), having authored some 40 books in all.

Matthew Stein, author of "When Technology Fails: A Manual for Self-Reliance and Planetary Survival" and an MIT-trained professional engineer also has a website by the same name.

THE MAIN THREATS TO OUR FUTURE

As I see it, the four main threats to a stable American and world future are:

· PEAK OIL
The oil crisis of the 1970's was a result of a 5% drop in global oil
production due to the OPEC oil embargo. We are facing an eminent,
unavoidable drop in global oil production as most of the world's oil fields
are now in decline. Many oil industry experts state that global oil production
has essentially already reached a plateau and predict that it will start to
decline sometime between this year and the year 2010.

· ECO THREAT . . .

· BIO THREAT . . .

· TERROR THREAT . . .

The last paragraphs on this page are a brief synopsis of peak oil and a suggestion to learn more about it. [Update - FWIW Reading further through the site, I've found that some of the author's ideas are too alternative or "new age" for my taste.]

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step back on December 25, 2006 - 5:33am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

Matt Stein's page is an interesting one.

He forgot the biggest threat of all:

Mental Manipulation of the Mob using the latest in neuro-scientific findings.

We are not who, or what we think we are.

Karl Rove knows it.
Kerry shows it.
His superior intellect gets Swift Boated every time and still he does not "get it". How intellectually dense can one be?

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Dragonfly41 on December 24, 2006 - 1:51pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
I gave my father-in-law a dynamo radio/flashlight (runs on batteries or winding action).
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neutrino23 on December 24, 2006 - 1:50pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
Same here. Hope everyone has a safe, warm, happy holiday.
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