The Oil Drum

How each community deals with peak oil will be different for because of its unique history, geography, infrastructure, politics, etc. But perhaps most important will be whether the community itself shows up at all. I suspect that many communities will pull together to face these challenges head on in a cooperative manner while in many others the community may dissolve in the face of adversity into extreme individualism or an "every man for himself" Hobbesian nightmare.

It was about a year ago that Prof. Goose put up this post about Peak Oil and Social Capital (click on the comment thread ("No Oil Here Either") from that old post which is still available). I thought we might renew this conversation. How would you evaluate your own social capital? How would you rate your community in general in terms of social capital? Are you doing anything to help improve the situation or do you think that's a waste of time?