'Lo and hi again Matt. Been a while since I've spoken here. Things are unfolding much as expected and predicted, though some a mite faster and some a mite slower.

Your frustration is right, your cynicism 80% right . Big BUT: politicians DO listen to voters when they shout loud enough. Imagine a million calling Hilary and / or Barak saying 'what you gonna do about peak oil?', they would pay attention, staffs would research, advise, they might dare speak.

Is it worth shouting? I dunno, I have a real problem with this. Less short term pain will probably cause more long term pain is the pattern I am seeing in the future. It may be past the point where it is wise to explain and alert, current reality has minimal realistic chance of persisting long, attempting to maintain it may cause more harm than good.

I've gone local, focused on training as many as practical / wish to produce food, that is an all win approach. I'll perhaps seek to influence politicians but probably not seriously until reality has smacked then hard enough first.

Ultimately we can only do what moves us and in what ways we can. Best we accept we can't know the ultimate good or ill of our well intentioned actions until after. A hard time for humans begins about now, possibly the hardest in its history as a species.

There is no map.