Creating a post-peak future you will want to live into
The future most people are living into is beginning to disappear. The financial crisis threw the first punch, but oil depletion will deliver the knockout blow. The moment people realize that the society they have known their whole life can no longer function the same way without the energy provided by oil, it will become glaringly apparent that the future will be very, very different.
June 28, 2010
The End of Retirement
The hidden link between money and energy means that as fossil fuels deplete the relatively recent phenomenon of retirement is in its waning days.
January 13, 2010
You’ve bought your last car
Actually, you’ve probably bought the last of a lot of things, but I remember being struck when I first heard James Howard Kunstler say, “Most Americans have bought their last car.” So I’m going to use the example of cars to demonstrate why that is and why we won’t get off of fossil fuel in time.
April 27, 2009