Joined: May 06, 2008 Posts: 10 Location: The hills of Northeast Iowa
Posted: Thu May 08, 2008 2:33 am Post subject: Re: Introducing Children to Peak Oil
As a teacher who's recently found this web site and really started to dig into the subject, I've brought it up with my students, not as a doom and gloom subject, but more as a journaling type of activity (describe what live might be like for you without a car, that type of thing). We talk about how life might have been like 150 years ago in this area and relate it to the Amish community that is around (no electric power, no gas power vechicles, etc.) This will at least get some of the students thinking about it.
As for my own children, we've started having the discussions about how life will be different when they are grown up, we'll have them more actively involved with the "hands on" aspects of our little acreage (one daughter is planning a small garden plot for our farmers market, raising animals), and my wife is having them help more in the kitchen, so they'll be able to create things using more home grown, whole foods, along with being able to can and preserve as well.
All in all, as a country, we shoud be preparing the next generation to have to make the decisions we either didn't, couldn't, or won't make. Instead, we are turning a blind eye, making that transition even more painful for all involved, especially the children.
Posted: Thu May 08, 2008 10:56 pm Post subject: Re: Introducing Children to Peak Oil
joeltrout wrote:
I agree with Pops. It would be smart to raise your children in a post peak oil lifestyle starting now.
Dont buy them ipods and cellphones when they turn 12 years old. Don't let them get suckered into dreaming of buying fast cars and big trucks.
But, if you don't get you're kids started on the consumer tread mill now, how do you plan on desensitizing them to all those poor people who are unworthy of god's natural resources? After all if god didn't mean for some people to be rich and for most poor people to be poor why else did god set up the system the way it is right now? _________________ "I'm 100% sure that unsustainable conspicuous consumption of natural basic resources will eventually lead to a proverbial hell on earth for those people who get stuck with the mismanagement mess of mankind not being stewards of the environment!"
Joined: May 08, 2008 Posts: 9 Location: California
Posted: Sun May 11, 2008 11:48 pm Post subject: Re: Introducing Children to Peak Oil
In reply to phaster:
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The Founding Fathers, whether through luck, wisdom or divine guidance, gave us an almost perfect form of government, and we’ve been busy ever since trying to take it apart. Human beings are dangerous predators and cannot be trusted with power over their fellows. Many Americans have forgotten that the power of government comes out of the barrel of a gun. Governments coerce; they don’t persuade.
There are people living among us at this very moment capable of the cruelty so evident in the Holocaust. All they are waiting for is the opportunity. No greater opportunity exists than when a government enlists such people and says whatever you do is now justified for the sake of the "greater good."
Who would have guessed that George W. Bush, who seemed to be a genial good old boy, would turn out to be a tyrant, launching wars of aggression, arresting and confining people without charges or access to a lawyer, condoning torture and lying to the American people? A government that can without trial destroy you by simply putting on a list your name or the name of an organization with which you are associated is a tyranny. A government that invades other countries and that feels free to murder people in any country it chooses is a tyranny.
Americans are on the edge of a long night. We had better wake up and step back before it’s too late.
_________________ "Waking up from the American Dream"
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