A good discussion starter. In my latest book, I spent a good deal of time on learning to live with collapse, including reevaluating Diamond's account of Easter Island. However, I still fear that our current political ecology will move quickly toward Nazis with Nukes. I also wonder how our Ponzi financial system will deal with all the down scaling and the loss of phantom wealth. I look forward to reading your book. Here is a piece that might interest you: http://www.paecon.net/PAEReview/issue102/Daneke102.pdf