Hello, everyone! Some of you may recognize me from my posts over at Ecosophia. I was turned on to JMG, peak oil, etc. a while back and have been (much too) slowly integrating that awareness into my life ever since.

I have to say that discovering peak oil and the concept of catabolic collapse was actually a relief. Prior to understanding those, I felt we were caught between the options of, on the other hand, a tehcnocratic dystopia where everything not forbidden was reduced to meaninglessness, and, on the other hand, the extinction of the human species, if not the entire biosphere. I hate the ternary option still involves a lot of death and suffering, but the long-term result — a return to something like what's actually normal for the human species — strikes me as a better option than either die-off or "In the Year 2525."