With the arrival of Peak Oil, the curtain has closed on Act 1 of the drama Petroleum Man. What will happen in Act 2? Chekhov said, "If there's a gun on the wall at the beginning of the play, by the end it must go off." In the world's nuclear arsenal are many guns on the wall. If life copies art, will there be an Act 3 in which the players, having learned their lesson the hard way, live sustainably? To explore these and other questions... FTW's Act 2 Blog. Read, comment, take heart! Orkin
Thursday, March 15, 2012
The Moron's Guide to Global Collapse by Jenna Orkin
http://www.amazon.com/The-Morons-Guide-Global-Collapse/dp/1469965399/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1331869410&sr=8-1
"An introduction to the economic, political and environmental mess the world is currently in; with insights into how we got here as well as how we might get out. (Some solutions are more painful than others.) Informative and even revelatory, but anyone who actually LIKES this book should have his head examined."
Jenna Orkin deserves, and now has, an immortalized place in [From the Wilderness] history...
[She also] has a fierce and unyielding sense of humor... She wields it with precision to open our eyes to some of the funnier and some of the less palatable and deeper aspects of human life...
Michael C. Ruppert
Author: “Crossing the Rubicon: The Decline of the American Empire at the End of the Age of Oil” and “Confronting Collapse.” Founder, www.Fromthewilderness.com, www.CollapseNet.com.
On one of the articles in this book:
…excellent. [It] should also be a cautionary tale for Peak Oil organizations which risk becoming captive to the oil, financial and business-as-usual industries which they work to scrutinize...
Jim Baldauf, Association for the Study of Peak Oil and Gas, ASPO-USA