Profiles written by Courtney White, originally published in Headwaters News.
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Collaborative efforts to restore watershed health can provide a template of how Americans can survive in a contracted society.

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"I want to say this right up front: I believe our nation is headed for what the Chinese euphemistically call 'intersting times.' In fact, I believe they've already begun.

"I'm not talking about global warming. I'm talking about a gathering oil crisis.

"Oil is a finite resource and as such is a one-time gift of incalculable wealth to the human race. Our response, apparently, has been to spend this unique inheritance as quickly as possible. When world oil production passes its 'peak' and begins to decline, which is about happen according to the experts, the destabilizing effects of the crisis will accelerate. That's because, as one oil expert has put it, there is no Plan B."