Calm Before the Storm

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Richard Heinberg, author of “Peak Everything”, reviews the accelerating events since mid-2007, including the credit crunch and fossil fuel price volatility, noting that we’ve missed most of the best opportunities to manage collapse. He asks, “how far down the staircase of complexity will our global civilization have to go until we’re sustainable?” His answer: when managed properly, with deliberate simplification, not as far as we might otherwise. In addition to long term efforts to relocalize our economies, he advocates developing community “resilience” to withstand short-term catastrophic events like food shortages or extreme weather. Noting that healthy fear can move us into action, he encourages an attitude of clarity, concern and informed action in this “calm before the storm” that he feels is soon coming to an end.

That evening we videotaped Richard’s presentation on Peak Everything at “Kiss Your Gas Goodbye.” DVDs are available at the here. Janaia’s reflections on this Conversation are at Janaia’s Journal.

all they need to do is to put back the word "energy" in Phil Gramm's Commodity Futures modernization Act of 2000. so energy futures are regulated the same way agricultural commodity futures already are.

It was frightening and calming. I know I have been on the right track and preparing but how much will others survive.