Open thread on the effects of climate change and peak oil on society....

[Javaman]

Okay folks, I'm hoping this post won't sink like a rock, but I just want to start a free exchange of ideas here regarding climate change and peak oil to the extent of what will be the first "shocks" and what can we do as a nation, as communities and as individuals to: combat, over come, prepare and navigate our way through the coming crisis.

The goal of this post, will be to summarize our posts into a list of options and a path (or strategy) to follow in the hope of surviving and providing for ourselves and our immediate communities.

I will post various follow up threads proposing various crisis and then it will be up to us to figure out how to over come the theoretical problem.

Also beyond the solutions and alternatives that people post, I would also like opinions regarding this idea and perhaps propose your own idea in a new thread to be linked back to this one.

Thus starting a library of sorts for reference.

Make sense?

Since so many things are now occurring at the same time regarding climate change and peak oil, more than one problem will present itself at anyone time: Disasters, resource shortage (steel, plastic, water, air, food, etc), lack of transportation, electricity brownouts, etc., I will, at times, combine the challenges and at other times, just present one at at a time.

I really want you to give these things real critical thought. Image it's happening right now. What would you do? What are your concerns, your worries, your plan of action and solution. What will you have to sacrifice?

I will start it off with an easy one, okay?

Fighting erupts in Nigeria, the MEND has blown up a major oil terminal halting 50% of Nigeria's output. Oil sky rockets overnight to $150 a barrel. Price at the pump jumps one full dollar. National average stands at $4.50 a gallon. Your nearby station hovers around that same price. The price of a gallon of milk goes up to between 6 and 7 dollars a gallon.

What do you do? what do you change? what things do you cut back on?