I have heard that insanity is persistently trying to solve a problem using a means that doesn't work.

My reason for starting an outpost here in Tokyo is because I am coming to realize that the decision to prepare for a catastrophic future is a personal one -- one that can only be made by people who are able and willing to accept the inevitability of oil depletion, and its devastating consequences, in the near future. When I first began to put the pieces together, I realized that, regardless of what people may think the risk is, the gravity of the stakes is epic. However, I approached some of my closest confidantes only to find that most of them were not ready to accept peak oil as an imminent reality. Inwardly alone, I considered staying with them in their sinking ship and living moment by moment until the ominous event would occur. But the deep and growing realization that the world is not just my own circle of confidantes prevents me from taking such a course...