“Four out of Five US Adults Struggle with Joblessness, Near-Poverty or Reliance on Welfare For at Least Parts of Their Lives,” (Associated Press, July 28, 2013). That’s Most of Us. Almost All of Us. Probably You.
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How many of the four-fifths are talking about bartering and seeing what else they can do for more self-sufficiency? Are they growing their own food? Creating compost for soil-building instead of land-filling the food-waste? Boycotting corporate products by eschewing car dependence, for example? Depaving and installing gardens? Sharing appliances and skills in their apartment buildings and neighborhoods?
Every indication available from Main Stream pundits to Nostradamus, from Mayan Calendar makers, to modern Geophysicists, the change in the rate of change of everything is reaching asymptotic (near-infinity of) changes.
Things are changing so fast that no one – and nothing, including ‘super computers’ – can keep up… but ordinary human beings are responding individually and in small groups as Humans always have, with cheerful ingenuity, resourcefulness, optimism and good faith – Tom Dennen.
“A consensus seems to be building toward anticipating collapse. So what’s your flavor? Financial meltdown with chaos? Petrocollapse? Climate extinction? The contributing crises are seemingly diverse, including Fukushima’s mounting radioactive releases into the Pacific, the growing plastic plague and creeping GMO contamination. If none of those are your thing, you can acknowledge accelerating bee colony collapse.
You may feel the days of “innocence” have receded in the rear-view mirror as we drive off the ecological cliff like motorized lemmings. Even so, maybe you see such resilience in the corporate state and its war machine that you anticipate dictatorship à la Children of Men, the ominous film set in 2027.
It appears that things must get worse before they get better. The United States has become especially absurd with its intensifying mess of debt and flailing leadership. If a major event in the Persian Gulf or China can trigger the toppling of the US House of Cards, increased consumer vulnerability must be the order of the day. It is surprising to some that total collapse has not yet happened, but news such as record new car sales in July suggests the entire system can keep on going indefinitely. Such news supplies happy-talk for the embattled corporate agenda.
A more disturbing and shocking statistic than car sales going in the wrong direction for Mother Earth:
“Four out of five US adults struggle with joblessness, near-poverty or reliance on welfare for at least parts of their lives, a sign of deteriorating economic security and an elusive American dream.” (Associated Press, July 28, 2013)
One has only to talk to the Wlagreen clerk who used to be an engineer or the McDonald’s server who once was a reasearch scientis to know how true this is. Our poor country is in trouble. http://coldwarwarrior.com/
At 75, with a retirement income >$75K we are creating a garden because that income could be meaningless in no time flat!
Our HOA only allows 100 SqFt for a garden but does also allow a 2foot border against the foundation for plantings. In our case, that added 250 SqFt. It is amazing how much can be grown in such a small area.
Some of us have silver etc but try buying $10 groceries with a piece of silver dollar supposedly worth $20 to $30. What will be your change be?
Thankfully, we are Biblical Christians, … our savior brought us this far and He is not going to drop us now! Life is too short and eternity too long to be wrong about God, His Bible, Jesus and salvation. http://jc.does-it.net
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One has only to talk to the Wlagreen clerk who used to be an engineer or the McDonald’s server who once was a reasearch scientis to know how true this is. Our poor country is in trouble. http://coldwarwarrior.com/
At 75, with a retirement income >$75K we are creating a garden because that income could be meaningless in no time flat!
Our HOA only allows 100 SqFt for a garden but does also allow a 2foot border against the foundation for plantings. In our case, that added 250 SqFt. It is amazing how much can be grown in such a small area.
Some of us have silver etc but try buying $10 groceries with a piece of silver dollar supposedly worth $20 to $30. What will be your change be?
Thankfully, we are Biblical Christians, … our savior brought us this far and He is not going to drop us now! Life is too short and eternity too long to be wrong about God, His Bible, Jesus and salvation. http://jc.does-it.net