KMO welcomes Nicole Foss back to the C-Realm to talk about why fewer people are interested in talking about peak oil now than they were a few years ago. She also explains why she plays the role of the contrarian, warning of the inevitable return of bad times when things are good and disrupting despair when times get tough. We need a mental state between complacency and panic, but humans tend to vacillate between those two extremes with very little capacity for a calm sense of informed urgency.