The Wind or the Sun?
Photo: akakumo
In 2004, I learned our society was in serious trouble. I’d wandered onto Life After the Oil Crash, which aptly opens with the line:
Civilization as we know it is coming to an end soon.
The site chronicles peak oil and the ensuing economic downfall that will have us all in mud huts, throwing rocks at each other before we know it.
My first reaction was disbelief. I was in shock…how could the world I know suddenly end? It wasn’t possible. As I read deeper into the site, the possibility became less far-fetched. My second reaction was despair, with a healthy dose of denial. I wanted to keep my lifestyle. I didn’t want to change.
Eventually, I became angry. How could humanity be so stupid? Which is another way of saying, why am I the only intelligent being on this planet?
I wanted other people to know how stupid they were. I wanted to shake people on the streets, send them damning articles of their gross consumption, and try to wake these sheep up from their slumber.
But a funny thing happened.