Summary of 19 Mar 2012 ASPO Peak Oil Review editorial “Collapse? Really?”:

If a collapse of some sort does happen, what helps?

• Social support systems and safety nets strengthened
• Making medical care, food and shelter available
• small-scale agriculture in urban centers
• small-scale localized economies
• scavenging, i.e. cardboard in Argentina came to support forty thousand people — just barely, though.
• informal economy jobs, i.e. shining shoes
• We’re going to have to find a new definition of better.