QuoteYou really think our pension systems will hold up by then when peak oil has already occurred 20 years in the past?

our pension system (as it is) will absolutely fail.

Make sure the right kind of change happens.  Complaining about how things are now, or could be, does not make change.  Individually we can't do much, together we can.  Thinking there is no hope prevents people coming together.

Hope is over-trashed.  We all know in the Diner what HOPIUM is.  We know smoking that pipe makes people passive.  I am not talking about that.  I agree people smoke hopium.  It is pandemic.

But hopium is not hope.  Hope is understanding the future has an infinity of possibilities and that the only certainty is that there will be echoes of the past in whatever new form the future takes.  This continuity of a rhyme gives human action value.  Knowing our actions have value is the essence of hope.

Hope is working to make one of the better possible outcomes happen.  Hopium avoids the future and DENIES hope.  Hopium is the opposite of hope.  Hopium is sitting on your ass doing nothing.  Hope is actual work.  Hopium believes that the future will just happen.  Hope works to make the future happen.

If you (all of you) think hope is just a feeling, you are from a very passive culture.  Feelings never made thing happen and never will.  Human action makes things happen.  Hope without action is delusion.