One depressing take: Jim Kunstler's The Long Emergency (a book, summarized here: http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/7203633/the_long_emergency http://www.ro

One depressing take: Jim Kunstler's The Long Emergency (a book, summarized here: http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/7203633/the_long_emergency http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/7203633/the_long_emer...). I'm afraid I think he's right (even if he's indulging in a lot of schadenfreude)--it's just a matter of timing. Our society isn't going to survive the peak oil crash intact. The bright side is that we'd have to become hyper-local in our economy, give up the hyperconsumerist dreamland of suburbia, big box stores and electronic entertainments, and deal with the real world.