Heya Folx,

It's time to respond, time to passiton... I've been requestin' politely for years now... if y'aven't read, agreed (heaven forbid), or passed-on past rants linx and concerns expressed herein...

Please consider allowing yourself to Believe Al Gore and Msr. diCaprio... and more immediately, personally-- PLEASE CONSIDER that the current economic crisis is about Even More than bunk mortgages and casino capitalism on Wall St... it's certainly "about" those things... but it's linked to much more... and it's going to get much more extreme as our world now enters a period of ongoing decrease in worldwide oil supplies to coincide with increasing global demand.

Shifting to solar/wind/biofuels etc. is important, and will be necessary to any success in transition... but the transition will be Much Bigger than most in the mainstream dare admit... and includes a mandatory shift to a no-growth economy... by "mandatory" I don't mean "should", "if-only", "oh-please-everybody-shift-so-we-can-save-the-planet"... no. That's not it. Mandatory, as-in our capacity for a constantly-growing economy and worldview has limits-- our culture overstepped them Many Years back and've been living on momentum and Oil Wars and Economic HitMen and Phantom Production/ Capacity (see John Perkins' "Confessions of an Economic Hit Man" and William Catton's "Overshoot" for thorough analysis of a coulple of these points)... but the end is not a negotiable, or moral, issue. We're going to run out, sooner and with more extreme results than most currently dare admit.

This "Economic Downturn" is just one among many recent Very Visible symptoms of Much More coming, Soon. We should work together once we've admitted it's Actually Already Happening, and Will Be Extreme-- to an unprecedented degree.

If you don't believe it can, please consider this reminder/ reality: Civilizations Collapse. All Ever, Have. Nearly None Believed they would/ could. They All thought they were special, an exception. The American Global Empire is not an exception-- except that it is global in scale, and the resources fueling it (literally) are dwindling-- globally.

Please pass this on-- please respond/ comment... please READ the link this text refers to: "Peak Oil: Collapse".

HOWWWL.

-ZMD

PS This was never, is still not about the capacity to say (or howl) "I told you so"... this scenario won't be "fun", or status-quo, for anyone... There will be little satisfaction or relief in "I told you so"... the only relief or strategy for effective navigation of this future (our future) is to come together as community in Recognition of this Reality, this future (our future)... so if you're onboard, have any suggestions, comments, anything to contribute... or at least (again) if you could please pass this on to any/ all you think might respond with any interest, effectiveness... please do so. Thanks humbly, ZMD