The Oil Drum

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.]