Frederick,

Your comment tracks the theme of my book, The Post Petroleum Survival Guide and Cookbook (2006). Or, as Nate Hagens mused to Art Berman in a recent Great Simplification podcast, what do we plan to do without our 300 to 500 billion invisible fossil workers? Do we really imagine we can sustain the global economy as we know it? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-IetuaYLmw&t=3805

That is a different form of termination shock, and the political system we have can't take it, despite our best intentions.