Peak Oil 6 : About your head (where you're at followup)

Last week a chap at TOD raised an important question: 'How are you doing? Are you, like me, dealing with a professional career on the one hand, and reading this site at night, thinking through the implications, and then waking up the next day again to plan a 5 year engineering project with ROI and thinking - "This is unreal"????' You can read the post and a good number of thoughtful and personal responses here:
http://www.theoildrum.com/comments/2006/2/2/202144/5783/6#6

TOD's main premise is to discuss peak oil in detail: will it happen, if so when, what does the data say, what reliable data is available, how can we model that data and attempt to predict future oil production and demand, what technical solutions are there, how viable and useful might they be? etc. It is not a place of gratuitious hand wringing and woe, woe, woe diatribes.

The people there, probably as informed a group (on the possibility and implications of peak oil) that one could find, are also people. Many have personally confronted what peak oil might mean for them, at some stage in your journey I think you will find it very helpful to read how they have been affected and how they have reacted. One way or another you are very likely to have to face this mental problem yourself before too long.

I do urge you to read that discussion, it could save you considerable anguish, its tone is more positive and constructive than negative.

Here's one quote: You want to cope? Be glad you are one of those who "knows," brother. You were put here to guide the less fortunate. Get busy.'

Amen and blessedbe