What do you worry about the most post peak?

Neily at the peak · Post by **Neily at the peak** » 19 Nov 2007, 13:36

I was wondering last night, what would I most struggle to deal with? and thought you guys and gals might find the question What do you worry about the most post peak? interesting to answer.

Neil

Andy Hunt · Post by **Andy Hunt** » 19 Nov 2007, 13:37

How the country is going to deal with restricted transportation, I think that is going to cause the biggest problems.

Norm · Post by **Norm** » 19 Nov 2007, 13:42

Apart from the steepness of the gradient downslope, I mainly worry about the possibilities of civil unrest causing a chaotic scenario to become much worse than it would be otherwise.

PS_RalphW · Post by **PS_RalphW** » 19 Nov 2007, 13:53

How I am going to support my family when my current employer goes broke- I'm too far behind the curve to get another IT job in the coming depression.

How my wife will cope when her ?10,000/year drugs habit is no longer available through the NHS.

Whether my adopted kids will grow up and fly the nest, or stay behind and feed us when we are too decrepid to grow our own food...

Some days I get gloomy

Aurora · Post by **Aurora** » 19 Nov 2007, 13:55

Andy Hunt wrote:How the country is going to deal with restricted transportation, I think that is going to cause the biggest problems.

......... and in turn, how will we feed our growing population?

brasso · Post by **brasso** » 19 Nov 2007, 14:01

How long have you got?

- feeding and protecting my family

- crime and violence raging out of control (I live in Nottingham)

- losing my house and/ or my job (I'm in IT)

- raising my son in an era of outright crisis

I've made what preparations I can, and am probably better positioned than most, but you can only do so much!

Andy Hunt · Post by **Andy Hunt** » 19 Nov 2007, 14:04

brasso wrote:- crime and violence raging out of control (I live in Nottingham)

Well you should be used to it then!

I'll get my coat . . .

MisterE · Post by **MisterE** » 19 Nov 2007, 14:08

Nothing at all other than one thing! Anything that PO can throw at you can be dealt with you may win you may lose or hit a happy meduim (wont probably be happy though lol) there really is only one thing you can not fail to live with that will ensure if you dont have it then your destined to fail or die plus those who rely on you could suffer terrible and the very thing is Your Health.

Erik · Post by **Erik** » 19 Nov 2007, 15:06

My daughter is disabled and, as far as we can tell, will always be very much dependent on others to get by. So, in a world of declining energy, in which I feel each and every one of us will have to pull their own weight much more, mostly by adapting and learning new skills in order to contribute something real to society, I worry a lot about how she'll cope.

If even the physically fit and able bodied have doubts about how we're all going to survive, then how much room there will be for charitably carrying along "passengers"? i.e. those who need caring for (due to illness, disability, age or whatever).

Well there you go, that's my "worry numero uno", the one thing that sometimes makes me feel like the chap in my avatar...

SunnyJim · Post by **SunnyJim** » 19 Nov 2007, 15:37

My daughters' future. Their safety & the world I leave behind for them. What they think about the way I lived my life.

At one time in my life I used to meditate alot. I kind of reached a stage where I wasn't really 'attached' to anything. I believed that we are simply a product of nature, and if it turns out that mankind is a dead end of evolution then so be it. We don't control the planet and we don't control our future. Mankind's nature just 'is'. What will be will be. I was quite happy with the idea that mankind may wipe itself out. Obviously I would die, but 'I' is just a construct anyway, I'm insignificant and shouldn't be attached to the existance should I?

Then I had Kids. Now I'm a panicking mess attached to my survival for the sake of the kids, and their survival because I can't bear to think of their death.

Cabrone · Post by **Cabrone** » 19 Nov 2007, 17:35

I live in Nottingham

I've got a friend who lives there, he calls it Shottingham.

I thought the place was picking up now that the source of the crime wave is doing time at her majesties pleasure.

Post by **mikepepler** » 19 Nov 2007, 19:17

Two measures for me - how likely is it, and how scary is it? Nuclear war is scary but (hopefully) less likely. Transport problems aren't scary, but are very likely.

The ones that fall in the middle for me are social collapse leading to chaos, and authoritarian government. I'm not convinced they're going to happen, but I think the chances are not insignificant, and the outcome might be scary, so that's what worries me most.

Having said that, I don't lose any sleep over it!

Vortex · Post by **Vortex** » 19 Nov 2007, 19:22

The clawing, grasping hands of the indigent, the no-hopers, the "I've got my rights" crowd, the quasi-intellectuals, the thugs, the politicians ...

Decent people who have grafted all their lives to bring up their children as best they can will be screwed.

Oh .... err ... life's ALREADY like that ... no change then.

PO will be a non event.

RenewableCandy · Post by **RenewableCandy** » 19 Nov 2007, 19:53

Slavery. I'm not joking, it was a major source of 'cheap energy' before cheap FFs.

SaturnV · Post by **SaturnV** » 20 Nov 2007, 00:01

The many options for dying, mostly unpleasant, which will manifest themselves increasingly post-peak.

This being, in my opinion, only slightly worse than the interminable suffering we are destined to endure as things go to crap - no matter what we do.