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Well, there won't be enough of us to run the farm post peak. Shocked

I'm very much against "anti-civilizationists", who thing "hardship isn't bad" and "peak oil will do us good".

crap stinks. Callu ...

Despite being in the Highlands, I find my family doesn't need much heat every year. This is because our house is very old, and as a result is built to be habitable without a power grid.

Where in S ...

Talking about Europe in general- France's agricultural subsides are amazing. Seriously, if I lived in France, we'd be able to afford a holiday abroad every year. As it is, goods from abroad make farmi ...

wow ... the bbc are really putting some weight behind the peak oil story. this is good news.

as for the UK being a bad place post peak, i cant see it being much worse than any other place. i think ...

For farmers, property is money. It's real estate, as I think the technical term is. Farming often gets a bad reputation for having led mankind astray, but the truth is that I think farming is a more c ...

@RIPSE

that wouldn't possibly be Ardfern wouldn't it?

Not the last time I looked. Very Happy

The funny thing about people who move to where I live (a very remote community) is that if they don't speak with a broad Scots accent they are immediately labelled "hippies". Most of the teachers, the ...

The railroads are hireing:

http://www.nwbombers.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=14418

Ironically enough, my best friend just started work at a railway station.

I have one problem with the concept of die off - there are many people today with little contact with oil - think 700,000,000 in sub Saharan Africa, 1bn in rural China/India etc...
I think you'll fi ...

I can't imagine farmers let alone urbanites chooising subsistence farming with a minimum of fossil fuels. If it gets to this point, a lot of people aren't going to make it.

To be perfectly honest, ...

And its not very intellectually stimulating. It's mostly a repetition

This is very true. Lots of people try to "get back to the land" here in Scotland, usually coming from London or some other c ...

Well, obviously there are shotguns a plenty here, but as you said, you can gets guns. Also, not everyone has handed in their guns yet, particularly in the more rural regions where laws are harder to e ...

I'm not miserable, I'm Scottish. My face just sticks this way. Mad

The point is not utopian. The point is that we live in a fanasy world. We work crappy jobs. We eat crappy food that we had no hand in raising. After work we sit in a little air-conditioned box t ...

Times were tough then. It was even colder, meat was a huge luxury, and potatoes and oats were the mainstay of our diet. But today, Scotland is much more fertile, and land is much cheaper because there ...