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Sat, 12 Aug 2006

Make yourself a cup of coffee and read a bit. This will wake you up. And it is ultimately optimistic. They start off:

During the 25-year span of the 9/11 generation, the cherished American way of life will come to an end. Traditions that were lovingly established since the unholy marriage of mass-produced Model T's and cheap oil, will irreversibly cease to exist. Some firmly cemented traditions will linger on, upheld by those with non-recoverable economical investments, others will vanish overnight with little fanfare. A new regime of local food production, city politics, and alternative energy will eventually overcome our oil-dependent, growth-based economy, with the effect that hardly any job will stay the same. America's businesses and residences will be undergoing a reverse engineering process toward local self-reliance and energy independence if it wants to survive, or fall back into a category that includes Egypt, India, South Africa, and other developing nations. America will succeed, because it must. There is no doubt. The path towards such success, however, is unclear, but already has a name: it is called the 'long emergency', as dubbed by Howard James Kunstler.

Link: The Coming Energy Crisis. It's worth your time.

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