It's (more than likely going to be) The End of The (Western) World As We (, the last 5 generations) Know It (and it's pretty lame),

Crude Awakening and Collapse

According to these two “documentaries,” peak oil is upon us,  and we’re all going to die.

Maybe not all of us, but there’s a good chance that if you’re reading this, you won’t make it to old age unless some serious shit starts taking place within the next 15 minutes.

No oil = no transportation = no food distribution.

No oil = no fuel for agricultural machinery = no food production.

No oil = no petrochemical fertilizers = no food production.

No oil = no Trans-Pacific shipping to bring you boatloads of cheap Chineese shit.

No oil = grossly exaggerated shipping charges, even for railways. So the coal from which most Americans 

derive their electricity will become retardedly expensive = expensive (if available) electricity.

Expensive electricity = expensive, if available, water, sanitation, entertainment, information and everything else you can imagine.

I was walking the other day, and It occurred to me that I’d better get used to this whole walking business, because when gasoline is $43.00/gallon, I’m going to be doing a lot more walking. I figure I might want to go ahead and invest in a really nice bicycle. With a trailer. Or maybe a rickshaw. I could cart folks around to make some extra dough on the side to pay for my $80.00/KWh electric bill.

It then occurred to me, while visualizing the chart of human history versus the use and depletion of oil I saw in Crude Awakening that people who have never been properly “civilized” and are currently living their lives like their ancestors have lived them for thousands of years will watch, if they’re informed at all, the collapse of the technological and atomic age and be not concerned. They’ll keep on rocking in their free world and the blip on the radar screen that was the production and consumption of oil will not phase them. So long as the sun comes up and we don’t completely ruin the air and water, they will live their lives recognizing no significant change. Less airplanes in the sky may or may not be the only change they notice.

Humanity will survive. The only thing that has the capacity to completely kill us off is ourselves.  But it seems highly unlikely to me that we won’t return to Victorian standards of living and dying.  At least for a while.  People will be working after the initial collapse to find a suitable replacement. And if they do, then awesome, but I don’t see that happening.

So what are we going to do?
Well, the best thing for you to do is figure out how to purify water and go buy some seeds.  You might survive.  The transition to the world we live in to the next one.

You might not.

We’ll probably not ever see a complete collapse of society, but it will certainly be a regression. People in urban areas—you’re screwed.  Just give up. Nobody is going to help you.

People in rural areas—you have a chance. Unfortunately, you’re probably superstitious enough to be content with there being an end of the world because you think an invisible man in the sky is going to come and sweep you all away before things get too bad.

So, ladies and gentleman, enjoy it while you can. If there’s ever some place you wanted to go, go there. If there’s ever been anything you wanted to see, go see it.   

I give us 10 years (and about as many wars) before we’re faced with the reality that we’ve sucked the oily tit of mother earth dry.

The only thing we can hope for is that the inevitable zombie apocalypse comes before the oil crash and not afterwards. Can you imagine Mad Max PLUS 28 Days Later?