Hi, Marjory,
Most curse me for my honesty, rather than thank me. Thank you for
changing that.
I would be overjoyed to have twenty years to get things turned around.
The neocons have a US military base in every oil-bearing region of the
world now. I think you're probably correct about getting all the oil
out of Earth. It won't nearly all come out.
This civilization was over at the Great Depression, when we overshot our
ecosystem's support capacity with one hundred million people. It just
had enough money to buy this much time with ghost acreage. That's a sad
thing, really. We'd be a lot better off if it had gone away then. As
it is, we have to deal with its fall.
I planted a food forest before and it fed us (not completely) after only
two years. I just don't want to live that way while all that's good
about the US people goes away. I think we are going to see an ecocity
in Austin. We're at work on preparing our Power Point presentation to
an interested business owner who has a good site for the first ecocity
center.
New Agers demand optimism. I don't buy it, either. It's going to be a
hard, hard, hard road. Most won't survive. We just have to evolve
ourselves enough to grieve in real time and go on with the work of
building a new future with whatever we have at our disposal. The
alternative is not acceptable.