The Message Finally Getting Through?

Nine Meals From Anarchy is the article on the website of the Daily Mail today. It’s a look by a mainstream news organization at the many levels of trouble rising oil prices will force on us. Though the article discusses the Britain’s perspective on the problem, the same economic catastrophe is bearing down on us in the U.S. right now. Maybe even more difficult.

Britain is a smaller company geographically, with a well-developed system of public transportation. Americans have no such system. The article on Mail Online however, is about food transportation, not about public transportation. A great bus and rail system doesn’t mean a thing if there’s no food.

If the trucks stopped moving, we’d start to worry and we’d head out to the shops, cking up our larders. By the end of Day One, if there was still no petrol, the shelves would be looking pretty thin. Imagine, then, Day Two: your fourth, fifth and sixth meal. We’d be in a panic. Day three: still no petrol.

What then? With hunger pangs kicking in, and no notion of how long it might take for the supermarkets to restock, how long before those who hadn’t stocked up began stealing from their neighbours? Or looting what they could get their hands on?

There might be 11 million gardeners in Britain, but your delicious summer peas won’t go far when your kids are hungry and the baked beans have run out.

If only these problems had been taken seriously several years ago, when only the “cranks” and “conspiracy nuts” were talking about Peak Oil and the trouble we’ve created along with our society’s cheap oil foundation.

If only.

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