videos199: Peak Oil Blues — We’re All Bozos on this Bus
“My own reaction seemed so crazy to me,” says psychologist Kathy McMahon of her response to Peak Oil. Wondering if she was the only “wacko”, she started the Peak Oil Blues blog to explore her own and readers’ responses. As the “Peak Shrink,” Kathy formulated a delightfully tongue-in-cheek “Panglossian Disorder” — an unrealistic optimism about the future. She is about to publish “I Can’t Believe You Actually Think That!” A Couple’s Guide to Finding Common Ground about Peak Oil, Climate Catastrophe, and Economic Hard Times. (peakoilblues.com, feistylife.com)
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Read Janaia’s journal “Peak Moment meets Peak Shrink Kathy McMahon” about this conversation.
August 14th, 2011 at 12:57 am
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August 18th, 2011 at 7:47 am
Thanks for this! I’ve been doing a lot of reading and listening about sustainability and peak oil lately and this is one of the most useful things I’ve encountered. As someone who has invested a lot of time and energy into a traditional corporate career and middle-class lifestyle the gap between where I am and where the world needs to be can be overwhelming. It’s comforting to be just one of the bozos instead of having to take heroic measures.
March 6th, 2012 at 9:03 pm
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March 10th, 2012 at 1:20 am
[…] Candide, psychologist Kathy McMahon, who calls herself the “peak shrink,” explains on Peak Moment TV (episode 199) that she invented Panglossian Disorder. It’s a condition of people who view the post peak oil […]
March 10th, 2012 at 11:53 am
[…] psychologist Kathy McMahon, who calls herself the “peak shrink,” explains on Peak Moment TV (episode 199) that she invented Panglossian Disorder. It’s a condition of people who view the post peak oil […]