We Can Do the ???Slow-Squeeze!???
Chris,
I beseech the Gods that you are correct in your expectation. There are way too many guns, gunners and regressive attitudes around for the ???fast-collapse??? to be anything but terrifying. Fortunately, my family has a lot of those guns and attributes, so I'd probably be all right, but I don't want to go there. Save me from Kunstlerism. (grin)
???...??it may also be more about personal action than policy.???
That sort of implies hunkering down survivalism, and I'm sure you didn't want to imply that, even though a dose of it is probably prudent. If I read you right from the past, the ???personal action,??? is in the service of local communal actions, by involvement in the directs needs and visions of our neighbors. We can't go it alone.
I recently read, ???The Transition Handbook,??? quite a slog for a too linear thinker like myself. Sticking to it did reward me with a vision for myself that might be of value to some of your readers. I am now pretty certain that there are action plans in that book for peak oilers that do and can work.
I've signed up with Post Carbon Institute to be trained on-line as a local facilitator of the peak everything/end of growth message. From there I expect to find like minded folk to network and work on a local transition movement some time in the next year. If we can get something going that is relatively self sustaining, I'd then back off from the whole, and work with groups of folks who are interested in the two things that most excite me, very light electric vehicles, and urban agriculture. Permaculture and aquaponics are just too fascinating.
We've gotta start somewhere after all the necessary blathering. (grin)
