Couple of good links I feel inclined to post today:

Social Collapse Best Practices – I’ve mentioned Dmitry Orlov before with his harbinger of doom attitude toward the full and total collapse of society. While my fiancee seems to think this is something I wish would happen, I’m more fascinated by the idea of it as a worst case scenario planning. Pay attention to what this man says.

How the Crash Will Reshape America – This one was linked all over the web today, and for good reason. The Atlantic’s Richard Florida examines how the geography of the US affected how different cities have been hit and how it will continue to do so.  Florida looks at the long depression of the late 1800′s for clues to how the fabric of America will be reshaped. A good education of the last 60 years of economic development here and how it has shaped the cities and communities that we live in, the effects of the financial breakdown on them, and what we must do to cope. Further proof that the petroleum fueled suburbanization of America is doomed and a good starting place to discuss what will become of it.

Why Sustainable Power is Unsustainable – Dependence on petroleum for the manufacturing process of renewable goods such as solar panels and wind turbines will be a limiting factor in thier use. This is one of the big premises of the Long Emergency, that none of the technologies currently available to us will be able to replace the easily available buffet of energy available from petroleum.

While I’m still holding out hope that technology will save us, it’s clear to me that things are going to change significantly in the long term. I haven’t had to make any real drastic cuts in my lifestyle since reality started hitting in August of last year, it’s mainly because I educated myself about peak oil, financial responsibility and sustainable lifestyles  some time ago and have been making a conscious effort to live below my means for some time now. I know that this will not be the case for many of my neighbors, those accustommed to thier weekly trash pickup, late night drive through windows and big box stores. It’s known that the Earth’s resources can’t handle a planet full of people trying to live like American’s, and with global oil production having seemingly peaked last year, we’re not going to be able to live like the American’s we’ve grown up to know in the suburbs and cites.

Things are going to change, hopefully I will be able to reach some of my lesser informed brethren and together we can figure out a way to make sure that we all make it to the other side of this crisis. Help me.