Age of Powerswitchers?

oobers · Post by **oobers** » 17 Mar 2007, 11:14

34 and complete basket case. 1 day = "We'll be fine. People will adjust their behaviour as depletion becomes obvious - there is loads of slack in the system after all"
Next day = "Shit this all appears to be happening very quickly. PANIC!"

I reckon my PO mood reflects my general mood for the day. Reading stories about international sabre rattling and big questions over state of Saudi oil fields don't help my day to get off to a good start if I am a bit low anyway!

Our little community group are now in the process of purchasing N.Cornwall farm. One day that provides me with loads of optimism with all the potential it offers.

The next I am overwhelmed with all the change that is bringing about in my life.

Sam172 · Post by **Sam172** » 17 Mar 2007, 12:02

I'm quite suprised that there aren't a larger amount of younger people. I feel alone

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JohnB · Post by **JohnB** » 17 Mar 2007, 12:28

I feel geriatric. I'm only 51, but am lumped in with ancient 60 year olds in the oldest group with any members

. Are there any PowerSwitch stickers I can put on my zimmer frame?

Keela · Post by **Keela** » 17 Mar 2007, 12:52

JohnB wrote:I feel geriatric. I'm only 51, but am lumped in with ancient 60 year olds in the oldest group with any members .

Now...now..... the 60 year olds go in the next age group up! You're only in with the 50s folk.....

Sam172 wrote:I'm quite suprised that there aren't a larger amount of younger people. I feel alone .

Don't worry most of the rest of us are still your age at heart!

Joules · Post by **Joules** » 17 Mar 2007, 13:04

At 40 exactly, I've opted for the 30-40 age group rather than the 40-50

I like to think that I'm a psycologically-prepared, though not practically-prepared doomer. I'm doing everything I can to encourage my two girls (11 and 16, so mainly the latter) to think about sustainable educational and thence career choices.

I felt very doomer last night, watching some of the comic relief footage of Africa etc... Seeing all those people dying of starvation and/or Aids made me think that this is nothing to what it could be like when food gets really short.

Doomerosity just dropped off the scale.

Keela · Post by **Keela** » 17 Mar 2007, 13:24

Joules wrote:At 40 exactly, I've opted for the 30-40 age group rather than the 40-50

I tried to be very careful on writing this one...... for just this reason...

Tragically at exactly 40 you are in the "40 to under 50", not "30 to under 40"....
I know I know it's hard to admit you've left the 30-something era behind!

Perhaps I should have made the categories "31 to under 41" etc so that those who have just entered a new decade (to which they are not yet accustomed) could continue to put them selves in the younger bracket

Maybe we should do another poll for the age we feel...... I know I don't feel 43 - that sounds more like my mother's age!

Joules · Post by **Joules** » 17 Mar 2007, 13:46

biffvernon · Post by **biffvernon** » 17 Mar 2007, 15:50

Joules wrote:At 40 exactly...

Happy Birthday.

grinu · Post by **grinu** » 17 Mar 2007, 16:02

I've just turned the grand ol' age of 28, and consider myself to be a realist with supressed doomerotic tendencies. Nah, I like to think I'm fairly optomistic - prepare for the worst, hope for the best...

Regarding how I came across this site - I was happily minding my own business, using google to search for ways to switch my power supply to something more susenvironmentally friendly, purely for ethical reasons, when I stumbled across the 'powerswitch' website.

'Ah, that one sounds ideal'

thinks I, clicking on the link, little knowing that my life would never be the same again...

Joules · Post by **Joules** » 17 Mar 2007, 16:13

biffvernon wrote:
Joules wrote:At 40 exactly...
Happy Birthday.

Hey, look at that... we joined Powerswitch on the same day.

Mean Mr Mustard · Post by **Mean Mr Mustard** » 17 Mar 2007, 16:38

44. Me and Mrs Mustard have 2 rescue dogs, no kids. Overpaying mortgage which will be paid for next year, I started with a half share of a house for ?7,500 in 1983 when I was 20. How different things are now.

Started digging around on the web for the big picture, to start thinking about where to put savings post-mortgage. From the weekly amusing rants of the Mogambo Guru (and all the doomer $$$ predictions are surely now coming to pass in the USA) it was a short hop to LATOC - their two opening pages had me convinced - then to here for a more balanced UK perspective.

Why Peak Oil isn't an even bigger news story than climate change still mystifies me.

Vortex · Post by **Vortex** » 17 Mar 2007, 17:03

Why Peak Oil isn't an even bigger news story than climate change still mystifies me.

Does it matter?

Most/many people can sense that we have simply run out.

Of oil supply. Of gas supply. Of pensions. Of health care. Of space. Of Nature's patience.

There is a convergence of nastiness on the way.

Which part we focus on is essentially irrelevant.

Governments & society can try to minimise the effects on a case by case basis ... but the end result will still be rather nasty.

biffvernon · Post by **biffvernon** » 17 Mar 2007, 18:31

Joules wrote:
biffvernon wrote:
Joules wrote:At 40 exactly...
Happy Birthday.
Hey, look at that... we joined Powerswitch on the same day.

24th November 2005 was a popular date for joining. Either that or it was when we switched boards so the clock started couting again.

snow hope · Post by **snow hope** » 17 Mar 2007, 23:05

46 and I suppose I have become a bit of a doomer.

Found out about PO 2 years ago now - discovered LifeAfterTheOilCrash.net and had got it within half an hour - life changing event really.

As time has gone by, I have become more doomeristic as the implications have become clearer to me. But hey (as someone else said) we all die eventually.....

I agree with Vortex, when he says there is a convergence of nastiness on the way. It appears to me we are closing in on Peak Everything really.

Erik · Post by **Erik** » 17 Mar 2007, 23:30

snow hope wrote:Found out about PO 2 years ago now - discovered LifeAfterTheOilCrash.net and had got it within half an hour - life changing event really.

For me it was a double whammy effect of reading firstly the Olduvai theory and then LATOC in the same week. I look back at it as a sort of "Matrix Moment", before which I was living in some kind of pre-programmed dream world.

snow hope wrote:I agree with Vortex, when he says there is a convergence of nastiness on the way. It appears to me we are closing in on Peak Everything really.

Me too.
But what I don't agree with is:

Vortex wrote:Most/many people can sense that we have simply run out.

I just don't see this around me! I guess it depends on what sort of circles you move in, but a trip to a shopping mall on a Saturday afternoon (something I reluctantly did today) is enough to make you realise that most people certainly have no idea that everything is peaking!

Age of Powerswitchers?

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