Executive Summary

• Why the next 7 years will be so critical to preparing yourself
• A realistic strategy for adopting a ‘back to the land’ lifestyle
• Why the route to our salvation will look like a leap into the unknown
• Why those who see what’s coming & take action will be those who prosper

If you have not yet read Part 1: Surf’s Up!, available free to all readers, please click here to read it first.

Each of the principal trends currently at play our Economy, Energy Systems and our Environment are unsustainable.  There’s just no way for things to continue as they have been for very much longer.

For 12 years now, my fellow co-founder Adam Taggart and I have been doing our best to raise consciousness about the many predicaments we face.

Problems have solutions

Predicaments have outcomes

~ John Michael Greer

Today there are 220,000 more humans on the planet than there were yesterday.  Each day a city’s worth of new humans all wanting food, warmth, cars, smartphones and internet.   Ditto for the day after that and every day after that.  No resting on Sundays.

Meanwhile, the most important resource of them all, oil, is set to begin waning right around 2030, give or take.  I sincerely hope it’s not until 2030, and that general awareness of the predicament arrives slowly.

Otherwise things could get rocky.  Too many people catching on at the same time could lead to a lot of negative experiences as they scramble for resources.

The main problem is that we face a host of very complex and complicated problems and predicaments.  Among them:

• After oil peaks, somewhere between 8 and 10 billion people alive on the planet 99% of them subsisting almost entirely on fossil fuel derived nitrogen and caloric inputs.
• Depleted soils lacking both macro and micronutrients, as well as a balanced and thriving soil microorganism ecology.
• The majority of people living in cities which are simply energy sinks and waste generating machines
• Wonky weather that will reveal the extent to which being lucky counts for more than being clever.