posted by chuck at 7/17/2011 05:49:00 AM
Sunday, July 17, 2011
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10 Comments:
siberia's lookin like a goodly spot to pick up some vacation real estate.
lotta big red dots in joysey this week. might hit 100 with intense humidity. my AC units gonna be hummin big time to keep my little clan at a comfy 72 d-grees!
so, okay, we're screwed. u gotta plan?
Nope,I'm clueless, but here's what a guy wrote on a "peak oil" website the other day:
Post by Whitefang » Thu Jul 14, 2011 10:10 pm
Indeedy the best one can do is to leave others alone and find that inch of a chance to leave this ship before it tumbles over into the deep. We do agree our party will soon be over period.
My mind tells me the situation is without hope, and yet...we can still survive a bit longer in face of our personal death.
We do intuit our hidden resources, our silent way of knowledge, we can still act upon our true nature and take only what is needed.
Go North, stay warm and learn to be awake with respect, put trust in ourselves. Learn to be free and independent from our internal dialogue, the petty little person high on self-pity.
Act for yourself and loved ones, leave the rest be, come hell and high water.
Key is to silence yourself by saving personal energy, strength for body by erasing habit, sobriety and patience.
One needs plenty time and that is what we do not have.
that was uplifting. he sounds like the dude who keeps predicting his own demise and finally, after like 50 years, it finally happens and sure enough, first thing he says: i told you so.
sure, the sky's fallin, but hey, not today!
right u r.
It's like chaos theory. Some initial event happens and it can then be predicted with some degree of certainty what will follow. We started using a nonrenewable resource--earl--and now, or rather, sometime in the not too distant future, it'll get scarce and we'll start killing each other over a tankful for our Honda accord.
"If its all the same to you I'll drive that tanker".
Crazy Mel as max?
And how many years ago was that! Gotta be the 80s
Bill,
Aha. You asked for a plan. I actually thought there was some meat in the quote I put up. It’s as thoughtful a “plan” as any I’ve heard lately--from double-talking politicians who, in pursuit of votes from the ignorant and indolent, cynically deny the existence of human-induced global warming, to flip bourgeois dismissals of the problem amongst our kind because “there’s nothing we can do about it anyway” (Turn up the AC. Where’s my ticket to New Zealand?). This guy at least is honest enough to look at the problem squarely and formulate a response that reflects a certain amount of wisdom. I think you centered on the negative prognosis—a natural reaction because no one wants to face the dire consequences of our failure to confront the problem—and overlooked what is actually a semi-positive message and a solution--at least for him. In the face of a global juggernaut hell-bent on self-destruction, he’s opting for self-reliance, intuition, independence, sobriety, patience and conservation of personal energy. It’s a better plan than I’ve got.
Hey Char will you please remove 2 of my Road Warrior references. Thank-you.
I don't have a plan either but I don't want to be in that place that Mr. Whitefang finds himself. Most of all I would hope that I could act not only for myself and loved ones but the others who he advises "leave the rest be". Isn't that the state we fear most? A bleak existence where everyone is pulling up the ladder cause they're on board?
you're absolutely right. but denial is a deeply rooted human trait. how would we survive and why would we bother with ambition if not for the power of denial. after all, we're all going to die, including the planet, eventually.
what's this guy's fear? warms temps? rising oceans? no gas? no food? nuclear armageddon?
plenty of fear out there. whole religions and political movements built on fear.
his advice reads like a christian (or a thoreauian) chant: live simply. be nice. stay cool. practice love.
awesome stuff. as i daddy with young kids i do my best. i can just do without the chicken little attitude.
by the way, best blog discourse in a while. hope some others jump in. good for the brain.
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