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  • From: Johnny Stansell <jgstansell@yahoo.com>
  • To: Livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org
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  • Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2007 19:58:02 -0800 (PST)

Paul:
 
  I think you are right we are heading for a break down, but where will it lead?  If all goes completly wrong and worse case 3/4 of the USA population is lost, it may not be a small population left to learn and get it right this time.  Usually a country that's weak is taken over by the powerful. So we lucky people left would not only have to struggle for survival, but maybe suffer from some other power that may or may not allow us to live.  We live in interesting times.
 
Regards,
Johnny Stansell
 
 
  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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