Party in the Bardo Room

The whole world and its inhabitants are impermanent, like a bubble, or like an exposed candle flame in a hurricane.
The sooner that we recognize and genuinely accept this fact, the better off we'll be.
Change and death are inevitable, the only things we can truly count on. It is the pinnacle of futility and childishness to try and avoid or ignore this.
Simultaneously, it is the most beneficial and rewarding experience to realize how interdependence functions, and make the best of our actual situation that we find ourselves in, and relax and let go of the clinging to unrealistic expectations, preconceptions, and belief systems that we are inured of and addicted to.
Death appears to be the final result, the end all and be all.
I disagree with this assumption.
There can be no life without death. If everything lasted forever, the world would be covered with shit.
What does this have to do with Peak Oil and its aftershocks?
Well, if we can intelligently and critically analyze what is really going on, we can prepare for what is likely to come next. We need to remain fluid and adaptaple, for things might change drastically and unexpectedly in a short amount of time.
We need to open our hearts and minds, prepare our bodies and skill-sets to be able to handle and persevere a radically different landscape. As Jeff says, we need to become resilient. To me, this means accepting that things will change and one day we will die. When we honestly confront these distastelful truths, we become fearless. They lose their power over us, or more accurately, we no longer invest power in them, but rather invest it where it will be of most benefit: in how things actually are.
We need to divest ourselves of our resentment and fear of decay and dying. A wise man once said, It is only after one has lost everything that one is free to do anything.