There was a time a few years ago when I was absolutely certain that the world was going to return to sustenance level living really soon (http://en.wikipedia.or

There was a time a few years ago when I was absolutely certain that the world was going to return to sustenance level living really soon (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malthusian_catastrophe http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malthusian_catastrophe). And then I read The Road and got extremely depressed. So I've thought about this a lot, and even asked someone (who you may have heard of) if there was already a system or procedure in place so people could keep in contact after a global catastrophe. His answer was a simple "no." My thought was that if people could keep in contact, they could better manage their survival, to access information on crop growing and to get updates on any "nomads" who might be roaming around. The best answer really is amateur radio. And hopefully information can be recovered from hard drives after the world becomes stable again. But please don't get me wrong. I don't advocate people freaking out. My dad was a missile engineer (programmer?) who really pounded the peak oil thing into us, and his predictions on "wars over energy" really influenced my thinking, so it's hard for me to gauge how biased I am.