Civilization Is Collapsing — What You Can Do
You can’t prevent it, but there’s something you can do for yourself and loved ones
Upon casual inspection this looks like a thriving civilization. People going to the grocery store, attending church, smiling at each other on the street.
But there is an edge, a vibe that hints at wrongness. Too many days over a hundred degrees. Too much rain when it comes. Too much strange and bad news about the economy and politics and the weather. Too many bills getting harder to pay. More people looking for handouts. More people camping out under the interstate overpass.
We live in a hyper-charged civilization built on petroleum. Liquid fossils. It is condensed, transportable energy. It is so common we forget how magical it is. We can fly higher and faster than birds. We can drive three hundred miles an hour down an autobahn, build edifices half a mile into the sky, pierce the sky itself and fly into the cosmos, and shove light into every corner of darkness to allay our fears of the boogey man.
All of it needs oil. It is what makes our mining, transportation, industrialization, and agriculture possible. It is the life blood of our civilization.
We won’t “run out” of oil. It will just get too expensive to burn.
