Suggestions for "Member Quotes"

[JPL]

I realize this isn't a member quote, but I find it pretty relevant to the idea of Peak Oil in general. I'm not sure how old it is, but I know I heard of it long before I heard about Peak Oil. Perhaps expanding the idea of quotes to include this like this could be considered.

"Only after the last tree has been cut down,
Only after the last river has been poisoned,
Only after the last fish has been caught,
Only then will you find that Money cannot be Eaten."

Cree Indian Prophecy

Err, hate to break it to the audience but that's what most Pagan people over IQ 60 would normally call a 'curse'. Not something to be re-printed all over the place, that's for certain.

Just thought I'd point that out...

JP

[Iaato]

For fairly obvious reasons, I didn't tell him about Peak Oil. You can imagine the conversations: "I hope we can hurry up with this project, before the US Economy collapses. By the way, don't get too fond of your dogs, you might have to eat them someday soon."

US economic problems hit my US partner

[Iaato]

Somebody stop me. It's like eating potato chips.

I have the feeling you get when a roller coaster comes of the crest of its upward slope and you are anticipating the downward plunge except I don't have a seatbelt, the metal restraints have been removed, there are 6 billion people in the cars behind me and the carnies running the machine are passing around crack pipes and bottles of gin.

The Modern Paradox

[roccman]

Posting on this forum is a trip into a broader understanding for most of us, but for the narcissist it is an ongoing baptism in a swirling eddy of information that is shrunken down to small and distinct puddle, easily understood, and one they can gaze in to worship themselves.

http://www.peakoil.com/post532380.html#532380

[threadbear]

Posting on this forum is a trip into a broader understanding for most of us, but for the narcissist it is an ongoing baptism in a swirling eddy of information that is shrunken down to small and distinct puddle, easily understood, and one they can gaze in to worship themselves.

http://www.peakoil.com/post532380.html#532380

Why thanks, Roccman!

[roccman]

http://www.peakoil.com/post534590.html#534590

There must be a bogeyman; there always is, and it cannot be something as esoteric as "resource depletion." You can't go to war with that.

[emersonbiggins]

http://www.peakoil.com/post534590.html#534590

There must be a bogeyman; there always is, and it cannot be something as esoteric as "resource depletion." You can't go to war with that.

Thanks!

[RonMN]

shortonoil Wrote:

I doubt if people in general will ever realize that growth in a post peak world will no longer be possible until the entire structure of modern civilization has been redesigned.

We haven’t even begun that process, so don’t expect anything but contraction and it accompanying hardships for at least the rest of this generation.

<edit> DOH! It was in the thread titled Housing Boom Over...Collapse Imminent (page 120) or

http://www.peakoil.com/fortopic18070-1785.html

[Aaron]

shortonoil Wrote:

I doubt if people in general will ever realize that growth in a post peak world will no longer be possible until the entire structure of modern civilization has been redesigned.

We haven’t even begun that process, so don’t expect anything but contraction and it accompanying hardships for at least the rest of this generation.

Only quotes with sources will be considered.

[roccman]

Sitting on one's ass and waiting for revelation to come in the form of an irrefutable truth or comprehensive argument is part and parcel of the intellectual syphilis the country is infested with.

http://www.peakoil.com/post539120.html#539120

[EnergyUnlimited]

no matter what you do the future will be the same, regardless.

http://www.peakoil.com/fortopic33517-0.html
That is regardless of "butterfly effect".
Influence of an individual is irrelevant in our current situation.
I would say, whatever we can possibly do, it will be too little and too late.
So relax and watch a film as long as you can...

[roccman]

The saga of an insatiable system cannabilising itself....and so we find ourselves in the closing days of this absurd dream we wove called limitless growth.

http://www.peakoil.com/post544866.html#544866

[roccman]

MrBill wrote:

My feeling is that if we are in crash scenario that you are better off having that 125 ounces than worrying about those type of consequences that fall clearly under 'what if' catagory. Protect your wealth and then worry about the details! ; - )

http://www.peakoil.com/post545016.html#545016

[Roy]

SpringCreek wrote:

If doom is on the horizon then I'm gonna go out happily tending my homestead....and blowing holes in those trying to stop me.

Amen Brother!!!

[roccman]

I only need a keyboard to hijack PO consciousness.

http://www.peakoil.com/fortopic33724.html

[roccman]

The idea that human die-off will occur sometime in the future because of the effects of peak oil is neither a "law" nor a "theroy" (sic).

It is a prediction. The prediction of human "die-off" may or may come true.....the future is notoriously difficult to predict.

http://www.peakoil.com/post546221.html#546221

[Jack]

Ibon:

We just need to be a little more hungry and it wont be a problem anymore. We wont think twice in letting our neighbors starve let alone those on the other side of the planet.

http://www.peakoil.com/fortopic33890-0-asc-60.html

[SpringCreekFarm]

My wife hates PO too, she thinks I am nuts but oh well. When all this shit comes down she will probably be mad I didn't do more to get us ready. Although the whole time she was sayin how full of it I am.

http://www.peakoil.com/fortopic33866-45.html

How true.

[kpeavey]

Here's to finding Hope every day

Strider3700 Wrote:

The fact that we don't already have mushroom clouds all over the place amazes me each day.

Doomers vs Uberdoomers:
http://www.peakoil.com/fortopic34133-0-asc-15.html

[roccman]

I am caustically pessimistic.

http://www.peakoil.com/post554504.html#554504