Very complete and very realistic.

An individual wants to change cars but only has 10K!
No problem; banks and dubious lending agencies double the stake for our brave consumers into debt over 5 years.

Our Smartphone already 1 year!
Quick, quick, change it and relieve themselves of a few hundred dollars!

In both cases, these consumer goods will require a process of manufacturing and transportation cost (raw materials, energy consumer per vehicle routing) where actually a scarcity of oil ...
Not to mention our future happy owners who squander their savings in the way of large states in a straight line towards bankruptcy.

All that to say that this book is very interesting and describes a situation that is constantly getting worse: people and states live on credit, over-consume, pollute while creating inequalities increasingly unacceptable based among others on alienation at work on the one hand and silver rotten finance other.

I remember especially two key concepts: oil and ADB.

So the situation could be summarized as follows: little or more oil => socioeconomic geo political tensions + => supply problems => civil chaos (anomie) and / or military (inter armed conflicts) => loophole to survive direction ADB's own.

Just about ADB, in theory this is really utopian but difficult to own at the time so we live the acquisition of a BAD in addition to his apartment or house becomes impossible for 99.99% of the population.
The only solution would be to do his main home, but generally a BAD in urban or too close to the middle of main roads.

I found interesting the idea that each person making up this micro community should have its importance within the group (doctor, mechanic, gardener, ...) but the size of the ADB is of enormous importance.
Indeed, I think the ideal size is between 10 and 20 people as it takes a minimum of people to "run the business" but beyond a certain number, there may be internal conflicts handing affect the safety of the group.

In this connection, reference is made on page 172 to "a bad zombie movie."
Sure, the day our consumer society based business will implode, it will not zombies but living beings debased that besiege us and all this makes me think of the series "The Walking Dead" about the safety and ADB stability over the medium and long term.

Digression: for those who do not know this series. This is an American series featuring surviving a zombie infection, these human helping each other in a chaotic world. In season 2, they take refuge in a large detached farmhouse (ADB) where a farmer survives with loved ones. They are autonomous in water, food, heating and enemy incursions are rare.
But at the end of the season, not tens but hundreds of zombies based on them and despite their shooting ability and survival, they have to retreat and abandon their AfDB to find themselves on the road, having first wiped losses in their ranks.

Hence my question about the ADB security in the medium term.
Imagine fifteen people organized in a BAD, eight age adults to take up arms (the seven others being too young or too old).
Two-three raiders wishing battle after 15 days of crises will easily put to flight but after six months, when groups lawless come knocking on their door with the butts of their guns, it will be less obvious ...