It is not your fault, but you are responsible. If you are reading these words you are using electricity. Had a hot shower this morning? Think you will be able to have one thirty years from now? Either through political action or scarcity all Fossil Fuel-based energy is going to be EXTREMELY expensive within 30 years.

So, what did we get for throwing away our children’s inheritance? An epidemic of cancer? Are you happier for the McDonalds you ate today? Unparalleled comforts have bred unequalled levels of obesity, idleness, boredom, unhappiness, drug-taking, crime, social problems, family breakdown and over-population. Everywhere where the cheap oil disease has struck, we see human beings huddling together around the source of energy rather than their source of food. We are like moths to the candle flame. Just look at the shanty-towns of the third world or the global history of peasants leaving the land to work in the city in search of a better life.

In reality we are like an early aviation pioneer who has strapped wings to his arms. He has jumped of a cliff and is falling. The trouble is he doesn’t think he is falling. In fact he thinks he is flying. He thinks he will fly forever. In fact he is about to hit the ground. Very hard.