the way is fraught with illusion somebody once said and like Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose, it becomes truer with time. i finished the book that follows The World Without Us, Countdown, and while many poor people are having fewer babies, the prognosis Chez Earth is not good. it makes the world without us look like a lovely dream. i just read on Tomgram that this benighted beliligerent country will lead the criminal underworld not only in occupation torture manifold war and pillage, but right here in the godblessed homeland the highest production of gas and oil on the planet is now being perpetrated. not only was peak oil a naive fantasy born of ignorant science; there are virtually Unlimited planetary oil reserves. folks, we are well and truly Fucked. freedom is just another word, we have little left to lose.