While it is no surprise to those of us at EcoSurvival Village that oil shock has occured, the rapidity with which the finger-pointing social decline has already begun has caught us off guard. It proves a hypothesis which some have been promoting lately: change is going to arrive at a much faster pace than any “official” estimates from the scientific community.

While some of our readers will be inclined to see the advance of peak oil as a good thing –especially in regard to global warming– we want to provide a caution. Rapid economic breakdown is likely to cause much more death and destruction than a more gradual change will. War over resources will not benefit us.

On the other hand, cooperation to convert the economy to a more sustainable model has several positive points:

• community building and solidarity,
• preventing further damage to the earth’s ecology, which a resource war will undoubtably cause,
• avoidance of unnecessary death, and
• it will give us an opportunity to advance democracy and people power (on the other side of that coin is an increased danger of fascism),

As we step up our campaign against Malsanto on May Day, we ask you not to drive to the protest. Use your bicycles, or walk to the Germaine town square, and march with us to Malsanto headquarters in south Wilbur County.

Besides being the greatest threat to our planet’s food chain, remember that Malsanto is also one of the world’s largest producers of petroleum-based artificial fertilizers.

NO Oil Economy, NO Borders, NO Malsanto!!!