coud not find one thing you said disagreeable, and the takeaway is terrifying, yet has a feeling of optimism buried within it.

what we see now is so humiliatingly undignified, it merits no continuation, yet it is all we know, we are steeped in it.

to turn our consciousness around 180, was one of the challenges of buddhism, and i have never seen such a strong need for it.

the way between scylla of social disaffection and charybdis of peak oil emerges ever more clearly, as in STOP WHATEVER YOU'RE DOING AND THINK ABOUT THIS, because it makes a farce of whatever personal fantasies you have about a 'normal' future for your children.

'it's the energy, stupid!'

the most galling thing of all is to realise what we are allowing to slip between our fumbling fingers, and the still immense ignorance of most of the world of this quandary we're in.

in all these recent uprisings, amidst all the understandable howls for speech and assembly freedoms, new constitutions et al, did anyone see one placard about going solar?

yet there is the answer to so much energy savings, in thermal, and generation/maintenance economy boost.

the present oligarchical energy cabals that are deceiving the public through media control are like global gaddafis or mubareks, in that they care not a jot for their own peoples. we are just numbers to them.

another block to this process of lurching change is the peculiar fantasy we have in the west that gentlefolk need never dirty their hands.

thr riff raff do that. a pol who had the cojones to come out and tell us how many are going to be discovering the joys of working the land would get my vote.

we're still a few katrinas away from that... :(

great diary, i wish you well for your new green business.

'The history of public debt is full of irony. It rarely follows our ideas of order and justice.' Thomas Piketty

Here's a small add. You say:

In 1972, all four lead authors believed a change of course was not only possible but likely. Today, only one remains a believer.

Donella Meadows, known as Dana, died about 10 years ago, but were she here I'm pretty sure she would still believe in her work.

One of the things she was doing then was tracking first frost and thaw dates at her New Hampshire farm -- and in something like 10 years, she'd seen noticeable shifts in how late the first frosts arrived and how early were the spring thaws.