The Real Sh*t
Craig Nulan introduced me to the concept of "peak oil" and for that reason alone I would be eternally grateful. But here's an interview with James Howard Kunstler that bears reading. Here's the central question: how should we live in the next forty years, when the oil runs out?
So we've all been talking in various ways about rebuilding the ties that bind. But as far as concrete stuff? Create co-ops. If you live in large large cities, don't plan on being able to survive there. If you live in the suburbs and commute to work? Move back to the city (unless the city is large large). If you live in a place like Tuscon? Move. Vegas? Move. Want to make money? Invest in urban housing.
Other ideas?
Posted by at May 14, 2005 12:54 AM
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cuban-style urban agriculture..., currently a major technology transfer underway between cuba and venezuela..., since cuba lost its soviet allocation of oil and fertilizer 20+ years ago
get your spanish tight, you'll need it...,
organic competencies..., trades, crafts, no matter what, people will still be using plumbing, needing things fixed, and so forth
my own preferred tradecraft is gunsmithing and reloading, ammunition may be a lot like coin if people lose they minds and completely forget how to act in a post surplus economic society.
LKS it sounds like Boggs to me ,grass root sis.,phd.,and organizer has been harking urban agriculture since the 60's.
cuban-style urban agriculture..., currently a major technology transfer underway between cuba and venezuela..., since cuba lost its soviet allocation of oil and fertilizer 20+ years ago
get your spanish tight, you'll need it...,
organic competencies..., trades, crafts, no matter what, people will still be using plumbing, needing things fixed, and so forth
my own preferred tradecraft is gunsmithing and reloading, ammunition may be a lot like coin if people lose they minds and completely forget how to act in a post surplus economic society.
Posted by: cnulan at May 15, 2005 06:44 PM