This piece originally appeared in The American Conservative, www.amconmag.com, in August 2008. Tags: Building Community, Culture & Behavior, Fossil Fuels, Oil Brian Kaller Former newspaper editor Brian Kaller wrote his first magazine cover story on peak oil in 2004, and since then has written for the American Conservative, the Dallas Morning News, Front Porch Republic, Big Questions Online and Low-Tech Magazine. In 2005 he and his family moved to rural Ireland, where he speaks to schools and churches,...