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  • From: Healing Hawk <healinghawk@earthlink.net>
  • To: Healthy soil and sustainable growing <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] Peak Oil is History
  • Date: Fri, 3 Sep 2010 11:07:03 -0500 (GMT-05:00)

Orlov has had it dead on for years, and pulls no punches. Good stuff,
although I would hope that we (the minority who are in the process of
preparing for massive culture change)will become more effective in our
outreach and awareness raising.

Transition builds community between people and their government(s)so the
people hold the political power to direct government, as plutocrats have been
used to doing in the US. I'm not sure anyone expects to displace the
plutocrats, but governments will serve the people as they serve the
plutocrats. Plutocrats are less than 1% of the US population, yet they rule
through directing government to do their bidding. When Transition reaches
1%, we'll do the same. So Transition isn't gloom and doom. It recognizes
that some people are too damaged to have the resilience to change, and we'll
bury them, just up the road, but, at the same time, cultural evolution is
(however slowly) occurring, and those of us who survive are not only healing
but gaining social and political sophistication, as well.

Thanks for this quote.

Smiles.
Tommy


-----Original Message-----
>From: Tradingpost <tradingpost@lobo.net>
>Sent: Sep 2, 2010 11:17 PM
>To: livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org
>Subject: [Livingontheland] Peak Oil is History
>
>
>Peak Oil is History
>by Dmitry Orlov 01 September 2010
>http://www.culturechange.org/cms/content/view/674/1/
> ... It should be expected that the vast majority of people will have done
> nothing to prepare, remaining quite unaware of the fact that this is
> something they should have been doing. Quite a few people can be expected
> to take a few small steps in a sensible direction, such as installing a
> wood stove, or insulating their home, or in a seemingly sensible but
> ultimately unhelpful direction, such as wasting their money on a new hybrid
> car or wasting their energies on trying to form a new political party or to
> lobby one of the existing ones. Some will buy a homestead, equip it for
> life off the grid, start growing all their own food (perhaps transporting
> their perishable surplus to a nearby farmer's market by cargo bicycle or by
> boat), and home-school their children, putting an emphasis on the classics
> and on agriculture, animal husbandry and other perennially useful
> knowledge. Some will flee to a place where transportation fuels are scarce
> already, and where a moped is considere
> d a labor-saving device -- for your donkey or camel.
>
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>paul tradingpost@lobo.net
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