Are we in the EndGame?

OK: Long time no blog... First let me say I'm going to pass on waxing too eloquent on this... I did some browsing around on this and found many eggheads far more intellectual than I on this one... (Disclaimer... I'm not some psuedo-liberal arrogant intellectual... I'm just a blue collar guy with a white collar job who likes to read and finds this stuff "interesting.") For example, this guy http://blogs.salon.com/0002007/2006/08/10.html knows how to save the world... What can poor old me say to that! Hell, he actually digested all TWENTY premises!

Or maybe this guy (http://www.pressaction.com/news/weblog/full_article/engel08122006/) who is a TYPE A pessimist and thinks a few million, maybe even a few billion gotta die before humanity comes back into equilibrium with mother earth.

So what's my bottom line on all this... Mostly, its "but of course it about the oil" silly... I always find it amusing when my liberal friends tell me that the damn war is about oil like its not entirely obvious. Of course its about the oil, what the hell else is it about. And while I don't claim to have access to the numbers, its certainly my gut that the oil is running out and fast... I thought that BEFORE $4.00 a gallon gas, and I figure if our esteemed government isn't working on Plan B, then we are in a world of shit. But I also realize that whatever plan B is, it is not here now and unless we are willing to roll over and die we better be doing whatever we can to ensure that the places that are delivering up the oil aren't run by nut-jobs or people who would like to spit in our eye. You come into my house and try and turn out the lights and take all my food and leave me without the means to exist (or in a far worse state) then we have a problem. Whatever lunacy led us to put ourselves at the mercy of these people is almost irrelevant at this point, because put ourselves at their mercy we did. So we fight and we better hope we win, not retreat back with our tails between our legs. In the meantime, we better hope like heck that the Chinese and the Indians and whomever else is hostage to the oil addiction don't notice we are setting up camp because I suspect its going to get worse before it gets better...

Which then brings us to the end of civilization... I'm enough of an optimist to hope that science will come up with some reasonable solution to the energy problem, or we will figure out how to exist with a lot less of it, but if we aren't working on that problem right now, then we are deep kimshee... The alternative probably is the ENDGAME, but if anyone thinks that a bunch of pinko activists blowing up dams is going to bring that around in an orderly fashion while a few billion people disappear, then those guys got more problems than us industrialists... So while Derrick and crew are blowing stuff up and trying to figure out how to live on nuts and berries along with 250 million of their closest friends, I'm hoping there is SOMEONE in this crazy country looking into hydrogen fuel cells or better solar or something...

So to sum it up... Mr. Jensen clearly sees the problem... Civilization is killing the planet and its pretty obvious that the abundant and cheap energy that powers our economy and way of life is going to be in short supply, and if we don't have a plan B, we are in a "hurtin' status" ... War and chaos or rolling over to die will be our choices. While I like camping on occasion, I'm not sure there's enough "landbase" around to support us all going camping at once, so we better hope Mr. Jensen and his ilk are too pessimistic about this whole thing...

Oh well, I'm off to plant a garden in my tiny backyard... *sigh*