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: Sep 01, 2005 Posts: 250 Location: New Hampshire USA
Posted: Thu Oct 04, 2007 7:09 pm Post subject: Re: Collective Burn Out from PO
This maybe a little off your topic but, adopting a survivors mentality would help. Animals have a basic instinct to survive. People have gotten well away from that in our modern lives. When forced with taking action, or dying, the way to survive is to dig down deep, and try to do what is needed to live.
Joined: Sep 14, 2004 Posts: 6018 Location: Rural Virginia
Posted: Thu Oct 04, 2007 7:54 pm Post subject: Re: Collective Burn Out from PO
TheDude wrote:
Heineken wrote:
OR is too expensive, except for the western part, which is one of the driest places on Earth.
Ah, your map's upside down Heink. Eastern Oregon is the cheap part in the rain shadow of the Cascades. There's dry, and there's dry, too. My family's been farming wheat in the northern part since the 1880s. There are some plush valleys in the Wallowas. Down in Malheur County you can hook up with some of the only Basques in the country.
Well, of course you're absolutely right and I got it bass-ackwards. This happens to me again and again, since I'm so used to my East Coast orientation. _________________ "Actually, humans died out long ago."
---Abused, abandoned hunting dog
"Things have entered a stage where the only change that is possible is for things to get worse."
---Me and my brother
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