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Great book. We should all read it. If you can find it.

Sounds like an interesting book. I'll have to pick it up on Amazon. (I occasionally use coinstar to dump some zincs and pick up a fee free amazon gift card which allows me to buy interesting stuff like this)

"Guns, germs, and steel" by Jared Diamond is also a good book. I'm going to try to get one of his other books, "Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed" some day.

I've read enough of the "Collapse" books (including the fitctional one by Rawles, Patriot) to have a decent grasp of our pending possible future. I'm now looking for the "Post" (well beyond the initial) collapse type to get a better vision of this scenario. Currently reading Power Down by Heinberg.

I find work by Dmitry Orlov interesting but have not read his book Reinventing Collapse. He's into things like shallow draft concrete boats and saving brass nails (See his work- Sailing craft for a post-collapse world).

Here is a youtube with the popular anamated people that did the Ben Bernank thing, explaining more of Dmitry's views: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCasHOQYYzs

Currently looking forthe book After Collapse: The Regeneration of Complex Societies.

And found this website with potential http://www.postcollapse.org/org/index.html

Forgot to add Fleeing Vesuvius to the must read list. Another great one.