In this video, psychotherapist Kathy McMahon totally hits the nail on its cognitively-biased head. She talks about how to deal with dangerous optimism, the overly-self reliant, our need to admit, “we are all Bozos on this bus,” and how to react well to Peak Oil.

Thanks to Gita Moulton and Transition Voice for bringing this needed conversation into my life.

Wintertime in New York town the wind blowing snow around
Walk around with nowhere to go
Somebody could freeze right to the bone
I froze right to the bone, New York Times said,
“It was the coldest winter in seventeen years”
I didn’t feel so cold then