We have to grow our food differently because industrial farming will soon end. That means growing more food locally on smaller farms with more human attention.

Once energy problems gain traction, there will be a large new class of economic losers, and consequently a lot of social turbulence.

Anyone who studies the energy predicament understands its connection with the operations of capital - and by this I do not mean capitalism as an ideology, I mean the behavior of acquired wealth and its deployment for productive purpose. (A lot of educated idiots don't understand this, and we waste a lot of time blathering about capitalism.)

In our current frame of mind, or paradigm, or whatever you want to call it, we like to think that marshalling government policy is the way to get things done.

Anything goes and nothing matters.

I am a sur le motif painter, always in-the-field, with a French easel that folds up into a box, with backpack straps on it. Many of the sites I haunt are desolately beautiful. Few other people go there. I am gloriously alone, unmolested, and absorbed in attempting to see what I am looking at.

No amount or combination of alternative fuels is going to allow us to continue running what we're running, the way we're running it.