Nuclear war is likely over peak oil.

COLLAPSE IS INEVITABLE. Why?

•Civilization always pursues complexity.

•Complexity is subject to diminishing returns.

•We have passed the point of diminishing returns.

•Technology cannot stop collapse.

•Environmental problems may lead to collapse.

•Peak Oil may lead to collapse.

•Nuclear War may lead to collapse.

•Complexity ensures collapse.

COLLAPSE RETURNS US to the normal state of affairs, a state of affairs humans are well-adapted to. The benefits of living a well-adapted life are things we, in our maladaptive civlization, usually dismiss as utopian daydreaming. Collapse increases quality of life:

•Lower stress

•Less work

•Better food

•More leisure

•More art and music

•Less violence

•More security

•Less disease

•More health

WILD WE SHALL BE AGAIN. In our present state, we are, ourselves, domesticated and as with all the other animals we have afflicted with that fate, we domesticates are but a shadow of our proud, wild ancestors. Yet, beneath it all, we remain wild.

THE PROCESS OF COLLAPSE itself will be the *most terrible thing* any animal has ever endured, as ten thousand years of damage are all paid back at once.

A WHOLE NEW WORLD AWAITS for those of us who are able to end our dependence on industrial civilization gradually, rather than catastrophically.

adapted from http://rewild.info/anthropik/thirty/index.html