" As the blood of the Earth runs dry, a great many assumptions at the core of the modern project are going to have to be discarded. The toolkit of magic is one of the few available options we’ve got to make that difficult transition a little easier, and to begin making sense of a future that has not yet even begun to darken the dreams of most of today’s humanity. "

― John Michael Greer , The Blood of the Earth: An essay on Magic and Peak Oil