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Life After the Oil Crash
Deal With Reality or Reality Will Deal With You
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Last year they published three of the most informative and and n depth articles on deriatives, financial warfare, and economic covert-ops that I've read in over six years of covering these issues:
We have a thread on the article going over at the LATOC Forum if you're interested in discussing it further. It's worth nothing that he North Bay Bohemian (NBB) was one of the first publications to cover Peak Oil and economic collapse starting back in 2004. Some of their previous articles on Peak Oil are as follows:
But the worst-case predictions of post-oil society come from Santa Rosa attorney Matt Savinar, a controversial figure in peak oil premonitions. His website, Peak Oil: Life After the Oil Crash (www.lifeaftertheoilcrash.net), offers an informational survivor's guide for what he is certain is an impending disaster. While other peak oil thinkers frequently talk about "when" the shit hits the fan, Savinar says it already has.
"The shit is hitting the fan now," he says unequivocally. "It's just happening in slow motion, and it's not hitting equally in all places."
Asked what individuals can do to ease their way into life after the oil crash, the 30-year-old advises people to "learn basic camping skills." Wilderness survival tactics will also be handy in the world that's dawning. He urges Americans to relocate geographically to within miles of their families, as social support networks will be crucial in the coming age. For himself, Savinar hopes to marry into a large family.
While Transitionists see the coming change as one of potential enrichment — community gardens, cycling, skilled artisans at every corner — Savinar's outlook is a bleak and shadowy contrast. He warns that in the foreseeable future the world will experience "staggering horror." While life in remembered times has been about "the pursuit of victory and money," life in the near future, he predicts, "will be about tragedy. We've been able to externalize this reality to the future and to other places only because we had access to this incredibly dense source of energy," he says.
No longer. Savinar can't say when, but he believes that a time will come well within just one generation when even supermarkets must close their doors. Then, unless the goal of Transition—to build resilience into communities—takes effect soon, chaos could only ensue in a culture so spoiled by excess and mass consumption as ours. In the North Bay, says the Post Carbon Institute's Miller, residents have the open space, the soil, the sun, the water and the resources to hit the ground running when peak oil arrives. What the community doesn't have, he says, is a full collective understanding of how much people need to cut back on individual consumption and how quickly they need to do it.
Savinar says too many people's happiness depends dearly on external items and flimsy concepts of wealth. These people must reprioritize their value systems now and quit "waddling through Wal-Mart." They must wean themselves from the comforts of supermarkets, leisure time and television. They — we — must forfeit luxuries; instead of feasting on steak, one may have to give thanks to a plate of beans and rice. Instead of vacations to Europe, we might have to settle for camping weekends at Salt Point State Park.
Because, if the predictions are true, we will not always have Paris.
Later in the article:
Savinar has been trying for years to invite government participation in peak oil preparation. In 2005, he sent a letter of warning to each member of the Santa Rosa City Council, advising that they begin aggressively readying the community for peak oil and its aftermath. The letter was articulate and "lawyerly," he says, and included a copy of Heinberg's Party's Over in each package, yet not one councilperson responded.
"And I guarantee that if I was a car manufacturer and I scribbled out a letter with crayons, they would have answered me," he says with a short laugh.
Editor's Note: I managed to make the front cover of my local alternative weekly, the North Bay Bohemian. You can check out the cover by clicking here while the article in it's entirety is posted here. It's an exceptionally well written article, not at all what you usually get when Peak Oil is covered by the media, and very much worth reading in its entirey when you get some time. An excerpt:
While the North Bay Bohemian is an alternative weekly with little circulation outside of Northern California, some similar articles on PO and the Transition Moement have been published in the mainstream media over the last 6-8 weeks. Links to a few that I recall off the top of my head include:
