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Although peak oil is a pretty new concept for me, I think I’m at the acceptance phase, and so it’s time to start doing something about it and using Granola Box to do it. The Queen of My Universe and I use the acronym EWAKI (End of the World as we Know It) to make a light reference out of the collapse of our civilization. Hence, future posts dealing with peak oil will be in the EWAKI category of posts.

Don’t worry Kilgore and other non-believers of all shapes and sizes… I haven’t gone all Rapture on your ass. I believe in a nice higher power who’s sitting up somewhere in the universe scratching His or Her higher power head wondering why how we could take the free will He She or It gave us to fuck ourselves up so mightily.

We’re running out of oil because of greed that starts at the top and trickles down, which is the only context I’ve seen trickle-down economics work in. Like the Right Reverend Jesse Jackson once said “Trickle down only works on dogs and fire hydrants.” Either way, it’s the same result on the bottom.

Fortunately for all of us, the QoMU has already read a ton of stuff about survival in a post petroleum, post economic collapse world, and will be sharing her knowledge with me here at Granola Box. In addition, what I’m hoping she’ll do is teach me what she reads about, which I’ll then turn into reasonably helpful posts.

I finished American Theocracy last month, which was really my intellectual introduction to EWAKI, and now I’m reading (albeit ever-so-slowly) Powerdown by Richard Heinberg. If you click on the titleS you can get an article about and preview of the books respectively.

There’s a world of information out there on the web, and a lot of what I’d like to do is provide a lot of links to the information that’s already been written so we’re not reinventing the wheel. Left up to my own devices, I don’t think I’d be smart enough to reinvent the wheel anyway. QoMU could…. but not me.

It’s the same Granola Box you’ve come to love or hate, but we’re emphasizing the crunchy. We’re helping ourselves and others prepare for the day when being “crunchy” isn’t just a lifestyle choice, but a matter of survival.

It’s the end of the world as we know it, and hopefully we’ll all feel fine.

Filed under: EWAKI on February 9th, 2008