Charles+Lee+- +Life+Without+Oil

Life without oil:

While everybody is pessimistic about the future without oil, I believe that we can do many things without oil because once we find the balance of the impact of man and sustainability of nature, we can build a society like twenty-first century.

When I checked the list, life without oil would be essentially like camping forever, at least to me. The only thing that I can't live without is my refrigator. :)

As for post-peak skills, Learning how to be a boy scout would be very important. Just thinking about cooking food over a fire, and sleeping in the woods, and other things we do in Boy Scout. Pretty much like the Boy Scout motto: "Be Prepared." We are "prepared" to deal with oil crisis. For a better describing of a world without oil, think of the colonial ages.

For Pre-peak skills, it is still important because we still have the chance to change the course of our future as we develop technologies that can substain humans from impacting nature. Hydro fuel cells, wind power tech, and solar power are examples that shows we are making progress in deveoping a alternative lifestyle.

In conclusion, we need both skills just so that we are "prepared" for the worst.

In my opinion, the fate of the 21st century really depends on every individual being, whether we continue this wasteful, greedy, and ignorant lifestyle of ours, or sacrifice our material for the better of the future. As Ben Franklin said, "together we stand, together we fall." Together we fight for our survival, together we fall for extinction.