Tessa said:
"It takes great spiritual maturity to seek truth while being respectful of other people’s free will, and to seek it whether it proves us right or wrong, for the sake of understanding the world."
" It is always about reconnecting to one’s soul. The lesson is that living away from one’s soul is completely unbearable." (Soul =…
"It takes great spiritual maturity to seek truth while being respectful of other people’s free will, and to seek it whether it proves us right or wrong, for the sake of understanding the world."
" It is always about reconnecting to one’s soul. The lesson is that living away from one’s soul is completely unbearable." (Soul = Love = God-Channel)
"What do you do when someone you love is being deceived and siding with the deceiver? What do you do?
My answer as of this moment is that you stand your ground and keep a cool head." (abiding love)
Did you read that? Did you read the title or the whole paper? (Thanks for the link, Susan)
I read the whole paper, and I think it's ok to just read the title, because the authors did not have a plan.
Charles Hugh Smith, who has been a college-age construction contractor, guitarist, vegetable gardener, and lives/adapts on the corner of cheap and liveable, has a book out, which I plan to get, as I have some of his other books. (Susan is going to get it, too.)
I know Charles has done a lifetime of homework, as have many of us, if we put our experiences into useful context.
I'm not going to say anybody has to read a book. I will posit that "Modernity is incompatible with planetary limits" is obviously true upon its face.
Let's Go!
I can't necessarily adapt to a future without fossil fuels, but I am already adapting to a future of less fossil fuel, less transport of my food for thousands of miles, less reliable cooling and heating, an erratic economy, and schemes to get rid of me and take my stuff as resources decline. Concepts and plans are not enough.
Taking steps while you can to be less vulnerable to approaching changes, with an eye to a fairly rapid decline in fossil fuel availability everywhere in the next few years.
The rumor is "Oil-Crisis-in-2023". It's a reasonable rumor. The exploration binge ended in 2015, after spending a lot and coming up with a little for the 8-10 years before that. I remember Oil-Crisis in the 1970s, when we lived a lot closer to everything and had fewer cars, and I didn't have a car at all. I did not even have a bicycle in the 1970s. It was normal to walk 5 miles to work and 5 miles back at numerous times while I was in college. I moved closer, though.. I borrowed a bike and a guy in a truck hit me, ruined the bike, cussed me out and drove off. I had to pay for the bike. I moved closer to campus and work. There are a lot of problems that come up that we can't prepare for, but just have to deal with. Proximity to essentials and bike access are important. There is a lot more property theft in our Austin suburb lately. There are more desperate people.
It's hard to live in Austin; expensive. Other people's problems become your problems when times are hard. Cities have a lot of people. Cities with a lot of people living marginally become toxic to everybody.
We all have social capital where we are. Most of us have jobs. Building alternatives means extra work. Ride a bike for an hour a few times a week and think about stuff while you're riding. Cook at home. Garden if you can. If you can't, is there an option for you to garden somewhere that you can bike to, a community garden?
I know that's not a plan for the looming oil-crisis-that-won't-end, but the grand plan is to get rid of most of us. That's what humans always do when there is not enough, get rid of a lot of other humans. That's what kings and rulers and nobles specialize in.
The Great Reset, The Fourth Industrial Revolution and Build Back Better (without me) are all about that. Having digital currency on your smart phone tied to your social credit score is being beta tested in China. Bad citizens eventually won't buy food, clothing or shelter, nor ride the train.
Who is at the top decides who gets cut out, like Obama deciding who gets droned in Iraq and Afghanistan. "Mistakes were made", they may say...
I'm advocating bike commuting, and being able to get groceries and get to work by bike in a pinch, growing a substantial vegetable garden, keeping beans, rice, onions, garlic, canned tomatoes, dried peppers, dried fruit, oil, salt, and spices around. Be a good neighbor. Spend locally. Use cash. Don't shop where it's not accepted. These are all little things. If you do them, you'll meet other people doing them. We live in a big self-organized social economic system. When we make strategic changes away from convenience, towards autonomy and resilience, we reorganize the system a little. I don't think we can do more than that. Big plans are like Fascism, Stalinism, and "You'll Own Nothing And You'll Be Happy With A Chip In Your Brain". Big, top down plans always put all of the losses onto those not making the plans.
People with a lot of valuable, mobile, unprotected stuff get hit first. Nobody steals sweet potatoes from the ground, as a rule. We can get around Yoakum on bikes, and Jenny could get around Austin on a bike if she worked closer. It keeps being a consideration. I usually do bike to work, but wimp out when it rains. Adapting your body and situation to the next stress is better than dealing with it through wealth, because wealth will be stolen. Vegetable gardens, cooking oil, bags of beans and rice are not things that usually get stolen. Bikes get stolen. Sorry. Bikes do get stolen regularly. I use a big U-lock for the frame and front wheel, with a cable through the rear wheel into the U-lock. I still would not leave it outside overnight.
After I die, I'll leave behind a direction of endeavor in my life that may be helpful to those continuing the journey into the world of less fuel, transportation and manufacturing. I have worked out succession-rotation gardening schemes and use them. I am drip-watering with city water. This would be a lot different without it. I can't go there now. Maybe another generation will have to. Dirt farming without diesel is really a hard life, and depends on undependable weather. The house I've designed, has windows to let the prevailing summer winds blow through to keep heat from building up, and will have a screen porch. It's still a hard to live without electricity when it's 90 degrees and 90% humidity at midnight. Maybe I can't live that life very many days. Some people do, already.
People who can't live in a place under prevailing circumstances will move or die. I would not start this journey from Phoenix, Arizona if I could help it.
I really expect a lot of migration in the next few decades. People from Chicago might move to Texas and dies in the summer when the electricity goes out. People from Honduras might move to Texas and feel ok about it. People from Chicago might move to farmland in the region. Most people can't farm unless they grew up doing it.
Charles Hugh Smith recently put up an article about when to move, now, or when you have to? You probably can't move when you need to, which is why there are refugee tent camps. Maybe you can't move now, either. Maybe you have family that you would house or that would house you. Maybe.. "Become the change which you would see in the world."
We are preparing a homestead where family can meet, maybe stay, if necessary. It has mostly tolerable weather except for those summer nights, and has a vegetable garden.
We might benefit from rain catchment. We may work on that. Everybody around here used to store rainwater in cisterns. There's no groundwater shallow, and the deep stuff is still no good. Czech and German farming communities moved here in the 1830s to 1850s and farmed, farmed it themselves, no slaves, no cotton.
This area pumps natural gas. Texas has not been able to liquefy and ship much of that, due to expense. Economies break down when the fuel is too expensive.
I kind of hope we keep having natural gas in Texas while I live.
So I will keep working on the problems coming sooner, with an eye to general shape of the problems coming later. The biggest help is divine guidance. Boy do I pray daily for divine guidance, and really try to listen to that kind, calm and quiet voice.
That's not like "Build Back Better", but I'm not plotting to dispossess and kill you, either. Just be aware of those schemes and work against them at every step.
Vandana Shiva: Great Reset Is ‘a Project of Extermination’
Vandana Shiva and Russell Brand dissect the Great Reset and the motives and psychology of the ruling elite
Destroying people’s life support systems “is an ecocidal and genocidal instinct,” she said.
Shiva told Brand:
“If you are creating conditions for most of humanity to not meet their basic needs, and creating a condition in which they can’t exercise their fundamental right to clean air, food, water, freedom, education or mobility … it’s an idea of dispensability equal to the idea of extermination.”
She said, “This is not just happening, it is being made to happen through deliberate action.”
Tessa said:
"It takes great spiritual maturity to seek truth while being respectful of other people’s free will, and to seek it whether it proves us right or wrong, for the sake of understanding the world."
" It is always about reconnecting to one’s soul. The lesson is that living away from one’s soul is completely unbearable." (Soul = Love = God-Channel)
"What do you do when someone you love is being deceived and siding with the deceiver? What do you do?
My answer as of this moment is that you stand your ground and keep a cool head." (abiding love)
Proceeding Without Plans
https://www.johndayblog.com/2021/12/proceeding-without-plans.html
Modernity is incompatible with planetary limits: Developing a PLAN for the future
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214629621003327
Did you read that? Did you read the title or the whole paper? (Thanks for the link, Susan)
I read the whole paper, and I think it's ok to just read the title, because the authors did not have a plan.
Charles Hugh Smith, who has been a college-age construction contractor, guitarist, vegetable gardener, and lives/adapts on the corner of cheap and liveable, has a book out, which I plan to get, as I have some of his other books. (Susan is going to get it, too.)
Global Crisis, National Renewal: A (Revolutionary) Grand Strategy for the United States https://www.oftwominds.com/GCNR.html
I know Charles has done a lifetime of homework, as have many of us, if we put our experiences into useful context.
I'm not going to say anybody has to read a book. I will posit that "Modernity is incompatible with planetary limits" is obviously true upon its face.
Let's Go!
I can't necessarily adapt to a future without fossil fuels, but I am already adapting to a future of less fossil fuel, less transport of my food for thousands of miles, less reliable cooling and heating, an erratic economy, and schemes to get rid of me and take my stuff as resources decline. Concepts and plans are not enough.
Taking steps while you can to be less vulnerable to approaching changes, with an eye to a fairly rapid decline in fossil fuel availability everywhere in the next few years.
The rumor is "Oil-Crisis-in-2023". It's a reasonable rumor. The exploration binge ended in 2015, after spending a lot and coming up with a little for the 8-10 years before that. I remember Oil-Crisis in the 1970s, when we lived a lot closer to everything and had fewer cars, and I didn't have a car at all. I did not even have a bicycle in the 1970s. It was normal to walk 5 miles to work and 5 miles back at numerous times while I was in college. I moved closer, though.. I borrowed a bike and a guy in a truck hit me, ruined the bike, cussed me out and drove off. I had to pay for the bike. I moved closer to campus and work. There are a lot of problems that come up that we can't prepare for, but just have to deal with. Proximity to essentials and bike access are important. There is a lot more property theft in our Austin suburb lately. There are more desperate people.
It's hard to live in Austin; expensive. Other people's problems become your problems when times are hard. Cities have a lot of people. Cities with a lot of people living marginally become toxic to everybody.
We all have social capital where we are. Most of us have jobs. Building alternatives means extra work. Ride a bike for an hour a few times a week and think about stuff while you're riding. Cook at home. Garden if you can. If you can't, is there an option for you to garden somewhere that you can bike to, a community garden?
I know that's not a plan for the looming oil-crisis-that-won't-end, but the grand plan is to get rid of most of us. That's what humans always do when there is not enough, get rid of a lot of other humans. That's what kings and rulers and nobles specialize in.
The Great Reset, The Fourth Industrial Revolution and Build Back Better (without me) are all about that. Having digital currency on your smart phone tied to your social credit score is being beta tested in China. Bad citizens eventually won't buy food, clothing or shelter, nor ride the train.
Who is at the top decides who gets cut out, like Obama deciding who gets droned in Iraq and Afghanistan. "Mistakes were made", they may say...
I'm advocating bike commuting, and being able to get groceries and get to work by bike in a pinch, growing a substantial vegetable garden, keeping beans, rice, onions, garlic, canned tomatoes, dried peppers, dried fruit, oil, salt, and spices around. Be a good neighbor. Spend locally. Use cash. Don't shop where it's not accepted. These are all little things. If you do them, you'll meet other people doing them. We live in a big self-organized social economic system. When we make strategic changes away from convenience, towards autonomy and resilience, we reorganize the system a little. I don't think we can do more than that. Big plans are like Fascism, Stalinism, and "You'll Own Nothing And You'll Be Happy With A Chip In Your Brain". Big, top down plans always put all of the losses onto those not making the plans.
People with a lot of valuable, mobile, unprotected stuff get hit first. Nobody steals sweet potatoes from the ground, as a rule. We can get around Yoakum on bikes, and Jenny could get around Austin on a bike if she worked closer. It keeps being a consideration. I usually do bike to work, but wimp out when it rains. Adapting your body and situation to the next stress is better than dealing with it through wealth, because wealth will be stolen. Vegetable gardens, cooking oil, bags of beans and rice are not things that usually get stolen. Bikes get stolen. Sorry. Bikes do get stolen regularly. I use a big U-lock for the frame and front wheel, with a cable through the rear wheel into the U-lock. I still would not leave it outside overnight.
After I die, I'll leave behind a direction of endeavor in my life that may be helpful to those continuing the journey into the world of less fuel, transportation and manufacturing. I have worked out succession-rotation gardening schemes and use them. I am drip-watering with city water. This would be a lot different without it. I can't go there now. Maybe another generation will have to. Dirt farming without diesel is really a hard life, and depends on undependable weather. The house I've designed, has windows to let the prevailing summer winds blow through to keep heat from building up, and will have a screen porch. It's still a hard to live without electricity when it's 90 degrees and 90% humidity at midnight. Maybe I can't live that life very many days. Some people do, already.
People who can't live in a place under prevailing circumstances will move or die. I would not start this journey from Phoenix, Arizona if I could help it.
I really expect a lot of migration in the next few decades. People from Chicago might move to Texas and dies in the summer when the electricity goes out. People from Honduras might move to Texas and feel ok about it. People from Chicago might move to farmland in the region. Most people can't farm unless they grew up doing it.
Charles Hugh Smith recently put up an article about when to move, now, or when you have to? You probably can't move when you need to, which is why there are refugee tent camps. Maybe you can't move now, either. Maybe you have family that you would house or that would house you. Maybe.. "Become the change which you would see in the world."
We are preparing a homestead where family can meet, maybe stay, if necessary. It has mostly tolerable weather except for those summer nights, and has a vegetable garden.
We might benefit from rain catchment. We may work on that. Everybody around here used to store rainwater in cisterns. There's no groundwater shallow, and the deep stuff is still no good. Czech and German farming communities moved here in the 1830s to 1850s and farmed, farmed it themselves, no slaves, no cotton.
This area pumps natural gas. Texas has not been able to liquefy and ship much of that, due to expense. Economies break down when the fuel is too expensive.
I kind of hope we keep having natural gas in Texas while I live.
So I will keep working on the problems coming sooner, with an eye to general shape of the problems coming later. The biggest help is divine guidance. Boy do I pray daily for divine guidance, and really try to listen to that kind, calm and quiet voice.
That's not like "Build Back Better", but I'm not plotting to dispossess and kill you, either. Just be aware of those schemes and work against them at every step.
Vandana Shiva: Great Reset Is ‘a Project of Extermination’
Vandana Shiva and Russell Brand dissect the Great Reset and the motives and psychology of the ruling elite
Destroying people’s life support systems “is an ecocidal and genocidal instinct,” she said.
Shiva told Brand:
“If you are creating conditions for most of humanity to not meet their basic needs, and creating a condition in which they can’t exercise their fundamental right to clean air, food, water, freedom, education or mobility … it’s an idea of dispensability equal to the idea of extermination.”
She said, “This is not just happening, it is being made to happen through deliberate action.”
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/russell-brand-vandana-shiva-great-reset-bill-gates/