Peak Pizza

[chelidon]

Okay, for those folks who're not inclined to wade through long tomes and reference-laden articles on the coming Peak Oil issue/crisis/opportunity/etc, here's one of the better down-to-earth explanations I've seen lately:

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Peak Olives
By Stirling Newberry
t r u t h o u t | Perspective

Thursday 14 July 2005

I often joke that every week I could write and sell a one thousand word piece that would consist of "Peak Oil" repeated five hundred times. There is a bottomless appetite for information, and confirmation, about the future of energy, but sadly, explaining it has often been difficult. People grab onto bits and pieces, and they don’t step back and look at the big picture. So rather than talking about petroleum, I am going to talk about something closely related: grease. Specifically, pizza.
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[chelidon.livejournal.com]

I'm very much hoping for a soft landing and slow economic contraction, but I'll admit I'm not all that trribly optimistic about it. I suspect our infrastructure and economy is more brittle than is generally accepted, and has become dependant for basic essentials of life (food, water, etc) on cheap energy. Humans tend to get nasty when confronted by resource scarcity. As do, as you astutely put it, addicts. And we have definitely become addicts to cheap energy.