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  • From: "TradingPostPaul" <tradingpost@riseup.net>
  • To: livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] electric car
  • Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 07:40:58 -0700


My own view on the oil thing is far worse than yours, mostly because of the
convergence of looming freshwater scarcity, topsoil loss, the natural gas
cliff that's coming, climate change, and last but not least the suicidal
economic juggernaut paying for war on borrowed money and risking
hyperinflation. However I do not find this depressing at all. In the long
view civilizations rise and fall, glaciers form and recede, all empires
fail, and everywhere people learn to adapt, move, or perish. There is a
theory, if that's the word, that Gaia - the Earth - either acts like or is
a living organism and reacts to threats. Since the beginning of the
Industrial Revolution, massive changes by human societies have had serious
unintended consequences.

Doing what we can to be constructive and less a part of the problem is
something we can take pride in. There is safety in our ability to coax good
food from soil, conserve our water and forest, and network and encourage
others nearby to find refuge in simpler ways of living. I definitely am not
obsessed with mauruding hordes stealing our supplies; unlike the
survivalists I'm more concerned with not being one of them.

paul tradingpost@lobo.net

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On 10/30/2007 at 4:00 PM bruce smith wrote:

>I'm sick to death of this entire oil thing.. only because it is
>depressing and not going to go away..But only get worse.
>
>I am city homesteading and building healthy gardens where I live. Trying
>to close the loop and use free soil building organic waste. Also will be
>setting up a hoop house as described in Coleman's Book Four season
>Harvest and growing micro greens as well as making a barrelponics setup
>down in my basement to increase food I can grow myself. I also made a
>vow to get better acquainted with my fishing pole and bring some free
>protein into the house. Wild Harvesting more foods as well as
>incorporating some wild foods into my landscape through forest gardening
>and permaculture.. I live in the city on 3/4 of an acre and have
>gardened here for ten years.. Before that I was gardening organically
>where ever I could find the land to do so. Thankfully I had some awesome
>landlords.
>One of my Major Goals is to put a Solar electric panel on my roof! But
>moneys are tight.
>







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