Sounds about right. I have been advocating the pursuit of local self-sufficiency that ‘might’ help local groups weather the coming storm and be more likely to make it out the other side of the ecological bottleneck we’ve created for ourselves. Of course, the universe and/or planet cares not one iota about our species’ existence down the road. My guess is that all the other species on the planet are hoping none of us do make the transition to a post-carbon world given our cyclical proclivity to create similarly destructive complex societies once one has ‘collapsed’.