I have the same opinion. It's fascinating to watch humankind, from the standpoint of never responding to something until it's obviously a crises, a catastrophe in the making. It's as if our specie is not much different than the deer frozen in the headlights of an uncoming vehicle. We stare right at something glaringly obvious, but not until it nears do we realize our predicament and start to think about manuevering to avert disaster.

And much like the rabbits that were introduced to Australia many years ago, we over-populate to the very limits of our food supply. Now we face an ever increasing cost of producing food due to higher energy prices, that will leave hundreds of millions of people lacking sufficiant sustenance to survive.

However at heart our heritage is one of an omnivore specie that is very adaptable and aggressive. Each country, county, town, and person will dominate their surroundings as needed to survive the coming crunch. Like the wolf we will run roughshod over the lanscape to extract the nutrition we each need to survive.

At the conclusion of this meltdown, we will churp like finches, a song sung to celebrate our survival. And who knows, maybe like Humans, we will have enough solar panels to power up a laptop to hook into the internet for some well needed 'new brain' interaction.

May the next human expansion be one with a greater sense of sustainability and balance with nature.

Its more like there are 3 or four cars coming at us from each direction and we can't move out of the way of one car or one of the others will hit us. Best thing to do is jump, and hope the landing isn't so bad.

It does feel that way doesn't it?

The Twelve Steps may contain some good ideas. But I submit that the reason we continue to roll out solutions that not everyone agrees with is that we actually haven't yet understood the problem.

Oh we mostly all agree that peak oil is a reality that will have dire consequences for humanity. But we really have not understood either the way in which those consequences will play out or that this "problem" is only one of an assortment of symptoms that point to the real problem. If we understood the root of the disease, we would be in a better position to propose a cure. The real root is systemic, not just one or another issue. We need to examine the whole, not just the parts in isolation.

Here is my candidate root cause: we don't grasp our own human nature sufficiently to see that our ability to make wise choices (as opposed to clever ones) is at fault. If I am right, the "solution" is likely to look very different from what we expect. The solution may lie outside of humanity and beyond our control, though, not, I hope, outside our influence.

Question Everything

George