Peak Plus Ten

Trees near Brian's house in Ireland.

Recently, Brian Kaller posted a reflection to his blog, Restoring Mayberry, on the fact that ten years after the peak of conventional petroleum production, the world isn't nearly as broken as the most alarmist Peak Oil personalities warned us that it would be. Brian praises the Peak Oil community for not adopting a host of "deal breaker" positions that would alienate the mainstream the way counter-cultural movements did in the 1960s and 70s. Still, it has attracted more than a few people whose dissatisfaction with life in a consumerist culture prompts them to yearn for the apocalypse. Has frakking pushed the big crash a few years into the future, or do those who have learned to stop worrying and love the collapse need to make peace with the idea that it's not coming?

 

Music by Handmade Moments.