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Cheer Up, It’s Going to Get Worse: Transition communities gear up for society’s collapse with a shovel and a smile

Three years ago, David Fridley purchased two and a half acres of land in rural Sonoma County. He planted drought-resistant blue Zuni corn, fruit trees and basic vegetables while leaving a full acre of extant forest for firewood collection. Today, Fridley and several friends and family subsist almost entirely off this small plot of land, with the surplus going to public charity.

He spent 12 years consulting for the oil industry in Asia. He is now a staff scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and a fellow of the Post Carbon Institute in Sebastopol, where members discuss the problems inherent to fossil-fuel dependency.
“peak oil.”
describes a scenario, perhaps already unfurling, in which the easy days of oil-based society are over,
leaders have been reluctant to address peak oil,
governmental
leadership
may never arrive.