Another Day, Another Doomsday

I love Doomsday scenarios. Documentaries on super-volcanoes eradicating North America and causing a nuclear winter; asteriods wiping us out with no warning; the Canary Islands falling into the sea and cauing a tsunami big enough to swamp the East Coast; terrorists detonating WMDs; and of course, Global Warming. All things that frankly we can't really do much about, so all you can do is shrug your shoulders, accept the risks and get on with life.

However, this article from the weekend's Sunday Times Magazine has really got to me.

Go read it. It's damn scary. Oil could run out within 10 years according to one Swedish University. The most optimistic professional assessment of oil stocks gives us 40 years.

Then check out the latest business pages from the BBC or whatever news site you use. Read about how increasing oil prices are pushing up US inflation at incredible rates, right now. Increased inflation means increased interest rates. It doesn't take a fool to realise that our mortgage repayments will be going through the roof, that our banked savings will become worthless, that saving for a pension becomes a waste of time.

Add in the fact that long before the oil actual runs dry, you won't be able to afford to drive to work, what are you going to do? Work locally? Same thing for food. It's too expensive to distribute by truck, so you need to find locally produced foodstuff. Businesses will fold. Society will break down faster than New Orleans.

You need to:

Learn survival skills
Learn to ride a horse
Learn martial arts
Buy a gun and learn how to use it
Buy a moutain bike
Buy an archery set and learn how to use it
Dig up the backgarden and plant vegetables and fruit trees
Fortify your property
Stockpile canned food, drinking water and medicine
Be prepared to kill someone for a can of dog food

Welcome to the Mad Max Scenario.
I am seriously freaked out!