please empty your brain below
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Consumption will be the death of us.
Great Aunt Annie | 09.01.10 - 12:47 a.m. | #
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This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang, but a whimper.
Oliver | Homepage | 09.01.10 - 5:57 a.m. | #
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Well, the line breaks didn't work quite as well as I'd hoped, but still, Kirk, well done! I noticed a new working counter a few days ago, and the basic template works very well. If you stop developing here, you've done a magnificent job! Cheers to you (as I raise a glass)!
Oliver | Homepage | 09.01.10 - 6:02 a.m. | #
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The problem is that when the oil runs out, our whole way of life will change. Individuals may, at a push, be able to continue to live without it, but commerce and technology won't.
It will be like a return to the pre-industrial age unless an alternative source of energy is found, but even then, everything consumed will probably have to be grown/handmade locally.
So all the skills/jobs that are being lost to technology now will come back and bite us when technology fails.
There was an interesting article several years ago on this subject entitled The Long Emergency (http://www.rollingstone.com
ews/story/7203633/the_long_emergency)
CornishCockney | 09.01.10 - 7:36 a.m. | #
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Yes, but, what does one do when one has already (years ago) trimmed back as far as one can? Luckily, between us I think we have all the craft, growing, construction and survival skills we need to get by. And we've chosen not to add to the world's over-population.
Blue Witch | Homepage | 09.01.10 - 10:00 a.m. | #
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This is the problem, of course, with our current 'throw-away' society. Eventually we will realise that we can't afford to dispose of anything up to a third of the food we buy untouched. Unfortunately we won't realise this until we end up in a period of World War 2-style rationing. I would imagine a similar story will emerge with other commodities, such as water, as well.
Andrewh | 09.01.10 - 11:03 a.m. | #
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