How then, do we move backwards? How does a society, with most of the people having no clue of future events, move from being dependent on a vast and intertwined network of goods and services produced by the indigenous people of whereever, to a local resource and renewable energy based society, and do so in the timeframe available (20-30 years using the most liberal extimates, 10-20 with resonable estimates, 5-10 with worst case scenarios), all the while prices on everything increasing, world politics getting more militaristic, governments continuously reducing civil liberties, shortages of goods on the market and weather patterns resembling bad Hollywood movies?
Joined: Oct 12, 2004 Posts: 983 Location: Giant Pickup Truck Country
Posted: Sat Oct 16, 2004 8:36 pm Post subject:
What I expect in the coming few decades will be a world that would look very familiar to our grandparents. A combination of 1930's economic depression and 1940's wartime resource rationing. We may be told that we are in a temporary crisis and the recovery is just around the corner. The truth will be that we will be adjusting to life as it will be from then on.
And adjust we will. We will leave our cars to quietly rust in peace while we walk, bike, and take the bus. We will revive "victory gardens" growing a large percentage of our food using all the water and other resources we pissed away on our suburban lawns. We will restrain our use of, and eventually abandon air conditioning and central heating. We will dress warmly indoors and zone heat only where it is really needed. We will revive the tradition of wearing bedclothes and sleeping under heavy quilts and sticking heated objects under the covers to warm our feet.
There will be many who will suffer terribly in the transition because they built a heavy debt load assuming they would continue to have the income to pay for it. There will be many forclosures and newly homeless. Others will fail to realize the need for austerity and attempt to continue the way of living they are accustomed to in the face of skyrocketing costs. They will continue to buy the fuel and the processed food and consumer goods until they too financially collapse.
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