Peak Oil WTF??

If you have never heard the term, I have some new links and reading suggestions that might help to clear up the confusion.  Peak Oil is old news - it's behind us, we can see it in the rear view mirror now (2005) -  and that raises some serious questions about our way forward with this industrial society we have created.

Robert Hirsch explains in an interview:

The peak oil story is definitely a bad news story. There’s just no way to sugar-coat it, other than maybe to do what I’ve done on occasion and that is to say that by 2050 we’ll have it right and we will have come through the peak oil recession—quite probably a very deep recession. At some point we’ll come out of this because we’re human beings, and we just don’t give up. And I have faith in people ultimately. But it’s a bad news story and anybody’s who’s going to stand up and talk about the bad news story and is in a position of responsibility in the government needs to then follow immediately and say “here’s what we’re going to do about it,” and no one seems prepared to do that.

Peak oil is a bigger issue than health care, than federal budget deficits, and so forth. We’re talking about something that, to take a middle of the road position—not the Armageddon extreme and not the la-la optimism of some people—is going to be extremely damaging to the U.S. and world economies for a very long period of time. There are no quick fixes.

He further goes on to explain the ramifications.

"There are no quick fixes for something like this..."

His concern was that it would be sooner, rather than later as a soft landing would require 20 years to transition towards. Seems like we don't get that 20 years, so fasten your seat belts, put your tray in the upright position, and secure your oxygen mask before helping others. And plant a seed, or three.