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Preparation for an uncertain future
I am not qualified or smart enough to convince you of coming problems. However the links below will lead you to websites and books and even whole books stored on my website that convinced me and convinced me and convinced me, long before Al Gore's movie on global warming, that we have a whole rash of ass kicking coming for the resources we have squandered, oil being the most visible in our daily life, but top soil probably the most important, forests, sterile seas that are all but fished out. As I said in the blog days ago. Read through these until you get the "Wake the fuck up" message, and then forget adding to the gloom. Instead concentrate on the opportunity to create a new way of looking at things for you. In the end, we affect the closest to us the most. You might come away feeling you are on a runaway train, and it matters little to the outcome of these huge problems- peak oil, worthless money, food grown from oil and exhausted soils, and everything running out as our consumption grows world wide by leaps and bounds. But you can change things for you, the ones you love. Change has to start with you, with what you are willing to accept. If you reject your current insanity, refuse to accept it as your fate, then we will all begin to get something different. We're not talking buying a Prius and a fluorescent light bulb here, it's changing your very expectation of what you will settle for, because what you expect you create. So wake up and expect to create a new world that leaves something for your children and a place that doesn't look like Mars.

THE FINAL EMPIRE: THE COLLAPSE OF CIVILIZATION AND THE SEED OF THE FUTURE by WM. H. KÖTKE
download part 1
 This is a two part word document about 170 pages long, about the collapse of complex societies tied to resource exhaustion and the inevitability of the outcome because of Empire. Eye opening. You need Open Office or Micro$oft Word to read these.
Humans are still pleistocene animals
Critical to understand this and what happens when business no longer have the cheap energy to expand.
Jim Kunstler understands the price of suburbia
Way smarter than me, more eloquent and gets to it.
A critical look at how the USSR collapsed and how people adapted to the crisis - compared to how the US will handle a similar collapse fueled by Peak Oil deflation.
mulitple respected sources on oil reserves and the results of 8%/yr shrinkage in supply

 
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