"I'd call it a clusterfuck."

I went to see this:

with Rob tonight, and you should all see it too. And you should show your friends, too. It's about one of my favourite obsessions: peak oil. I was surprised to see very few of the usual leftie suspects in the audience; there's very little talk in our circles about oil depletion given the proliferation of "No Blood for Oil" signs at anti-war rallies. There was a completely non-diverse panel of speakers afterward who nevertheless spanned the range from "abandon your ideological blinders; capitalism will survive but adapt" to "this economic system is unsustainable and can't be reformed. Period." Would have loved to stay and debate (particularly given my intention to write a novel about the subject) but alas, my futon and cat were calling me home.

Check out that site, by the way. It's got a really good links section. My views when it comes to oil depletion are similar to how I suspect a fundamentalist Christian must feel about the Rapture. On one hand, it is almost dizzyingly terrifying to contemplate what entails the destruction of our way of life. On the other...it's the chance to redeem ourselves as a species for past wrongs and emerge with ideas for a better and sustainable mode of living.

In the spirit of this:

What will you do when the cheap oil runs out? Who will you be with, and where do you want to be?

"I'd call it a clusterfuck."

I went to see this:

with Rob tonight, and you should all see it too. And you should show your friends, too. It's about one of my favourite obsessions: peak oil. I was surprised to see very few of the usual leftie suspects in the audience; there's very little talk in our circles about oil depletion given the proliferation of "No Blood for Oil" signs at anti-war rallies. There was a completely non-diverse panel of speakers afterward who nevertheless spanned the range from "abandon your ideological blinders; capitalism will survive but adapt" to "this economic system is unsustainable and can't be reformed. Period." Would have loved to stay and debate (particularly given my intention to write a novel about the subject) but alas, my futon and cat were calling me home.

Check out that site, by the way. It's got a really good links section. My views when it comes to oil depletion are similar to how I suspect a fundamentalist Christian must feel about the Rapture. On one hand, it is almost dizzyingly terrifying to contemplate what entails the destruction of our way of life. On the other...it's the chance to redeem ourselves as a species for past wrongs and emerge with ideas for a better and sustainable mode of living.

In the spirit of this:

What will you do when the cheap oil runs out? Who will you be with, and where do you want to be?