Dismantle Civilisation

Report from the BBC, reporting that tens of thousands of US citizens are fleeing to Canada as economic refugees. Also a report on www.chycho.com

Canadians will also need to be prepared for this influx, especially considering that the average processing time for a refugee claim in Canada is currently 14.2 months, “a period during which the applicant is eligible for financial and other support. A failed claimant then also has the right to seek leave to appeal his or her rejection to federal court.” If the American refugee crisis continues to grow as analysts predict, then the cost to Canadians will be astronomical.

Aside from tens of thousands of Americans becoming refugees in their own country, there is another problem. As The Atlantic is reporting, “the subprime crisis is just the tip of the iceberg. Fundamental changes in American life may turn today’s McMansions into tomorrow’s tenements.” Over 60% of the homes in certain communities “were in foreclosure as of late last year. Vandals have kicked in doors and stripped the copper wire from vacant houses; drug users and homeless people have furtively moved in.”

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A short clip about how many Russians are inspired by the Anastasia books to move back to the countryside and live closer to nature.

The story began in 1994 on the bank of the River Ob amidst the endless expanses of the Siberian taiga. The well-known Siberian entrepreneur Vladimir Megre met with two elderly gentlemen who told him about the amazing properties of the Siberian cedar (also known in the West as the Siberian pine ). At first he didn’t pay much attention to what they told him, but as he continued to reflect on it, Vladimir began to discover, in the historical and scientific literature he examined, more and more evidence supporting their words. Finally he decided to organize an expedition with a fleet of river steamers. The expedition was ostensibly for commercial purposes, but in actual fact his overriding motivation was to find the elders again and learn more about the secrets of the cedar.
A meeting which changed a life
Having instructed his fleet’s captain to maintain their course, Vladimir slipped away by himself at the exact spot where he had met the two elders the previous year. On the riverbank he found a woman waiting for him who turned out to be their granddaughter. She called herself Anastasia . This woman, through the depth of her knowledge, her sincere love and her outlook on the world, was to have a profound influence on Vladimir ‘s whole life.
At first he saw her simply as a young attractive woman who, though she appeared quite knowledgeable about modern urban society, seemed to be utterly naive in her aspirations to change that society from her remote location far off in the wilds of Siberia.

Some of Anastasia’s claims seem a little far fetched, and some of the concepts of light and dark etc are somewhat christian, this series of books have spurred a whole generation of Russians to look at their lives and seek to live closer to nature.
As the oil-dependent industrial civilisation unravels, it makes good sense for people to move back to the countryside, and coupled with the Russian government’s Dacha policies (basic land reform?), its quite amazing what is happening in Russia. The Ringing Cedars series certainly has played a part in making russian citizens start making changes for the better. The Uk and US governments would do well to look at what is happening there, and give ordinary people access to cheap land to grow food. Russian dachas grow more than 80% of the potato needs of Russia, and much more.

The books set forth — in very clear language — profound ideas about the education of children and the importance of communicating with living Nature — ideas ranging from nutrition and health to spirituality and sexual relations. With their practical wisdom on matters of everyday life, the books have become the basis for a number of sociological studies and scholarly papers.

http://www.ringingcedarsofrussia.co.uk/ 

http://www.ringingcedars.com/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dacha

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Richard Heinberg, author of ‘The Party’s Over’ suggests in an article at Hopedance  it really is up to us how we react to the unravelling of the global economic system based on cheap oil. The oil is running out, this depression is likely to be like nothing seen before.

The implication is clear: if we hope to survive as a species, and if there is to be hope for millions of other creatures, we need to shrink the human enterprise. Economic contraction may be bitter medicine, but it’s part of the cure for what ails our planetary home.

However, we can manage this contraction either foolishly or intelligently.

Undoubtedly many governments and corporations are going to be unwilling to let go of the worldview of global economics – a system which has made a very small percentage of the human population incredibly rich, at the expense of the vast majority of humans, at the expense of our non-human neighbours and whole eco-systems. And many in the more industrialised nations simply dont know where to begin to live a different way, more respectful and in harmony with the natural world.

Those of us who see that there can be an intelligent way to bring on the changes, certainly have our work cut out for us. As well as learning ourselves how to grow food, co-operate, manage with less ‘stuff’, and be more rooted to our landbases, we have to somehow help eveyone else to see that this depression could actually save the human species from extinction (along with many other species that our current business activities are pushing into extinction).

A foolish management of economic contraction would entail burning the biosphere for alternative fuels; propping up the banks and other financial institutions that created the mortgage mess, without ever re-examining the wisdom of growth-based economics; and responding to human privation and misery with repression and war.

Intelligent management would start with an explicit commitment to redesign the global economy to run with less. We would assess ecosphere resources and identify a humane, equitable path toward gradual reduction in population and total consumption levels. We would focus on those aspects of life that bring us increasing satisfaction without requiring more inputs of energy and materials. We would re-acquaint ourselves with the values and virtues of community, self-sufficiency, and modesty. We would redesign our cities to eliminate cars, while developing renewable energy sources and educating a new generation of ecological farmers.

If we handle this well, the medicine of contraction will leave Nature intact and humanity in a state of greater happiness, equity, and peace.

We don’t have much choice regarding whether a Depression will ensue. But a great deal depends on how we respond. It’s not too soon to start that discussion.

If we handle it well, it will still be difficult. Change often is, and oil has allowed us as a species to overshoot the earths carrying capacity. There will, in the not too distant future, be a lot less people on the earth. It is up to us, though, what kind of world those who survive inherit. We have a choice, allow the global elites to continue turning our planet into a dead lump of rock, or ‘just say no’ and start collectively rebuilding, rewilding, replanting – reconnecting with this amazingly bountiful world, and relearning how to live with it, not against it, as our ancestors did, and many indigenous cultures around the world still do.

http://www.richardheinberg.com/

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Whatever your feelings about the invasion of Iraq or American foreign policy generally, this movie will shock you. From day one in Iraq the Bush administration has ignored advisors, cut corners, and done everything possible to alienate and anger the Iraqi population.

The first film of its kind to chronicle the reasons behind Iraq’s descent into guerilla war, warlord rule, criminality and anarchy, NO END IN SIGHT is a jaw-dropping, insider’s tale of wholesale incompetence, recklessness and venality. Based on over 200 hours of footage, the film provides a candid retelling of the events following the fall of Baghdad in 2003 by high ranking officials such as former Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage, Ambassador Barbara Bodine (in charge of Baghdad during the Spring of 2003), Lawrence Wilkerson, former Chief of Staff to Colin Powell, and General Jay Garner (in charge of the occupation of Iraq through May 2003) as well as Iraqi civilians, American soldiers, and prominent analysts. NO END IN SIGHT examines the manner in which the principal errors of U.S. policy – the use of insufficient troop levels, allowing the looting of Baghdad, the purging of professionals from the Iraqi government, and the disbanding of the Iraqi military – largely created the insurgency and chaos that engulf Iraq today. How did a group of men with little or no military experience, knowledge of the Arab world or personal experience in Iraq come to make such flagrantly debilitating decisions? NO END IN SIGHT dissects the people, issues and facts behind the Bush Administration’s decisions and their consequences on the ground to provide a powerful look into how arrogance and ignorance turned a military victory into a seemingly endless and deepening nightmare of a war.

Or, perhaps, this is exactly how Bush and his buddies wanted it to play out. Chaos for the people of Iraq as an excuse for the US troops to stay there, while US/UK corporations make millions from the rebuilding of the country and Iraq’s oil is well and truly in the control of the USA. Can the US/UK governments really be that incompetent , or is it all part of the plan?

http://www.noendinsightmovie.com/ 

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Aaron Russo’s ‘America: Freedom to Fascism’ is a shocking documentary, informing viewers that there is no legal basis for personal income taxes in the US. In fact the US Constitution forbids any federal income taxes. Russo asks many officials to cite the law which permits a tax on labour, but none can show him and some responses are simply unbelieveable, such as “my badge is my authority”.

Determined to find the law that requires American citizens to pay income tax, producer Aaron Russo (“The Rose,” “Trading Places”) set out on a journey to find the evidence. This film which is neither left, nor right-wing is a startling examination of government. It exposes the systematic erosion of civil liberties in America since 1913 when the Federal Reserve system was fraudulently created. Through interviews with U.S. Congressmen, a former IRS Commissioner, former IRS and FBI agents and tax attorneys and authors, Russo connects the dots between money creation, federal income tax, and the national identity card which becomes law in May 2008. This ID card will use Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) chips which are essentially homing devices used to track people. This film shows in great detail and undeniable facts that America is moving headlong into a fascist police state. Wake up!

The Federal Reserve is a private institution, created in 1913. It prints money, lends it to the US Government and US income tax pays the interest charged on those loans.

Whether income tax is legal or not (here is one opposing view) much of the information towards the end of the film is definitely worrying. RFID chips, government surveillance, ID cards, Bush’s dismantling of civil rights and the constitution are indeed movements towards a fascist state. The merging of big business and central government is fascism, whether Mussolini said this or not. Many of the arguments against Russo’s perspective seem to concentrate on details and creating doubt about his sources and moral character. This does not change the reality that the US is a police state, civil liberties have been stripped away in the name of the ‘War on Terror’, the Federal Reserve is a private enterprise making money by lending money to the USA, or that the US is bankrupt. As Russo says “Wake Up America!”.

http://www.freedomtofascism.com/ 

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Clifton Middleton tells us about saving tomato seeds.

To grow something and not save it’s seed is a missed opportunity to fully engage in the cycle of life. Only in these recent times of technological growth and mechanisation have
humans tried to extract themselves from these natural cycles, depending instead on
increasingly large companies for their food and seed. The result is a population dependent on commercial seed, bought yearly from a rapidly decreasing number of varieties and doused with chemicals.

Primal Seeds website explains why we should save seeds and the basics of how to do it.

The Real Seed Catalogue also has some useful information. 
They sell a great range of heirloom seeds, which often come with seed saving instructions.

The International Seed Saving Institute has a useful website.

The following books are full of practical advice:

SEED SAVERS’ HANDBOOK – out of print Author – J. Cherfas, M. & J. Fanton The UK and European version of the famous seed saving book by the Fantons. Over 80 varieties of vegetable and herb covered. Save the world a seed at a time. NOW OUT OF PRINT – WE SUGGEST BACK GARDEN SEED SAVING AS A GOOD ALTERNATIVE. £ 99.99 Click here to view full book details on eco-logic books website

BACK GARDEN SEED SAVING Author – Sue Stickland The best UK book on seed saving by top gardening writer Sue Stickland. She gives easy to follow crop-by-crop guidelines to help you save seed for yourself and varieties to look out for. UPDATED EDITION NOW READY BUT WE WILL HOLD THE PRE- PUBLICATION SPECIAL PRICE UNTIL THE END OF FEBRUARY SAVE 3 UKP £ 9.95 Click here to view full book details on eco-logic books website

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Intensive gardening for renters. You dont have to buy a smallholding to 
provide some of your food needs. Peak Oil, climate change and the general endgame of civilisation is going to push us into a style of living that is actually far far better for us than the wage slave reality that we are forced to live now.
Start collecting those seed stocks now!!

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Human rights organizations, as well as political and social ones, are condemning what they are calling a new form of inhumane exploitation in the United States, where they say a prison population of up to 2 million – mostly Black and Hispanic – are working for various industries for a pittance. For the tycoons who have invested in the prison industry, it has been like finding a pot of gold. They don’t have to worry about strikes or paying unemployment insurance, vacations or comp time. All of their workers are full-time, and never arrive late or are absent because of family problems; moreover, if they don’t like the pay of 25 cents an hour and refuse to work, they are locked up in isolation cells.There are approximately 2 million inmates in state, federal and private prisons throughout the country. According to California Prison Focus, “no other society in human history has imprisoned so many of its own citizens.” The figures show that the United States has locked up more people than any other country: a half million more than China, which has a population five times greater than the U.S. Statistics reveal that the United States holds 25% of the world’s prison population, but only 5% of the world’s people. From less than 300,000 inmates in 1972, the jail population grew to 2 million by the year 2000. In 1990 it was one million. Ten years ago there were only five private prisons in the country, with a population of 2,000 inmates; now, there are 100, with 62,000 inmates. It is expected that by the coming decade, the number will hit 360,000, according to reports.

What has happened over the last 10 years? Why are there so many prisoners?

full article

Thanks to prison labor, the United States is once again an attractive location for investment in work that was designed for Third World labor markets. A company that operated a maquiladora (assembly plant in Mexico near the border) closed down its operations there and relocated to San Quentin State Prison in California. In Texas, a factory fired its 150 workers and contracted the services of prisoner-workers from the private Lockhart Texas prison, where circuit boards are assembled for companies like IBM and Compaq.

Oregon State Representative Kevin Mannix recently urged Nike to cut its production in Indonesia and bring it to his state, telling the shoe manufacturer that “there won’t be any transportation costs; we’re offering you competitive prison labor (here).”

So we have an economic system that impoverishes the masses with little or no safety net, criminalises those who turn to drugs (including self-medicating by those who cant afford the high price of medicines), locks people up for life if they commit 3 crimes no matter how minor, and then uses those prisoners as cheap labour for corporations. Land of the free, huh?

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I am referring a lot of callers to review some of the data found on this blog, and therefore, am going to state some things here that might be “old ground” for regular readers, but need to put refreshed near the top of this blog. It is my opinion that the “trigger events” leading up to global food shortages have now occurred. There are many reasons for this, but I base this opinion on the news articles now being reported around the world. Even the U.S. media if finally, if belatedly getting on board. It is also my opinion that this situation is far more extreme then most people can rightly imagine. I say “rightly” because there is nothing in their experience that would tell them otherwise. In short, based on all of the information I have attempted to assimilate, we are facing famine in many parts of the world and food shortages and unbelievably high prices in America. This situation is beginning to take notice in the public eye and is causing a huge upsurge in demand for food products. Not only food, but survival gear of all types, candles, seeds, solar power, fuel storage and anything and everything else you can think of. This panic alone has caused every supplier in the country to be overwhelmed with orders. Personally, I have updated my shipping times page at least three or maybe even four times in the last week alone. Presently, we are over 1 month out on all products and longer on some products, such as Alpine Aire. Every cannery in the country has been overwhelmed, most are sold out and are scrambling for new supplies. This is not uncommon for this industry. We ship out many tons of food per week as an industry, I don’t have the exact figures, but it’s quite a lot. Even so, there are only a handful of canneries like my suppliers in the entire country. We cannot handle even 1% of the population. We cannot handle even 1/10 of 1% of the population if they were all to order. This is unfortunate, but true. Many of us have been in this business for a very long time, my main supplier has been doing this for over 50 years for example. Me, over 13 years now. I’ve “seen this before”, but because of the news on global food supplies, resource depletion, energy stocks, fuel stocks, increased population and global resource demands that are spiraling clear out of site — I’ve never seen it like this. Nor do I ever expect to see it like this again. In other words — this is the ‘event’ all have been wondering about and some of us have been waiting for. We are now in a permanent downard resource depletion spiral of gargantuan proportions. The world news has reported that without record breaking crops every single year from here on out we are facing famine. This is not my opinion, this is the assessment of researchers and scientists. More research and scientific reports have been pouring in all of last year and this year. Few Americans seem to be aware of their significance. Global climate change is real, the world will be ice free in Arctic in just a few more years, this will cause gigantic and massive crop failures all over the world, low land flooding, sea level rises and huge number of global refugees pouring forth from inundated lands. Increased hurricane severity, drought and even flooding in many areas is also anticipated by scientist and climatologists. This is already happening, I cannot stress this enough. In addition, the energy crisis is quite severe and getting worse. Not a single significant discovery of oil has been found to my knowledge that will last more then six months at the present world consumption rates. Food = oil, and all the energy and fertilizer inputs in-between. Without cheap energy, we will never produce even a fraction of the food we produce today. This all by itself, discounting the effects of climate change, have doomed our future chances of survival by a very huge percentage. As a guess, at least 50% of all human life on earth will suffer quite dramatically as our energy supplies become increasingly scarce and expensive and our ability to produce food plummets. This will mostly affect the developed countries in various and sundry ways. Our modern agriculture industry is already suffering under these conditions. Some farmers cannot afford the fertilizers due to it’s high costs. Much of our existing farmland has been plowed under to make room for biofuel crops. These crops, like corn, is being converted into bioethanol for our automobiles. This has caused a huge upsurge in price and global food shortages, along with food riots in some countries. In addition, countries like China and India have increased their demand rather significantly for food products and energy. Their populations dwarf the United States many times over. This and all these other conditions has helped contribute to the wildly fluctuating food prices on the world markets. By now, you should have noticed that you are paying about twice as much for food in the supermarket as you did one or two years ago. Not every single product has doubled, but it will. It will because it is all a downstream output of cheap energy, which is no longer cheap and not easily replaced. Not a single alternative energy source “discovery” or invention has the capability to produce the cheap and abundant energy that petroleum offered. Despite the hype and so-called ‘promises’ we’ve all seen, you should take special notice of the fact that none of them have come to market in ways which are even remotely impacting our global energy consumption. Most alternative energy efforts are actually bogus, mostly smoke and mirrors and they do not remotely come close to paying for themselves in reasonable time frames. Investigative articles and research on this blog and in magazines such as Mother Earth News, Backwoods Home and others have revealed that converting to solar or wind energy has payback times in decades. Not everyone believes this, so do your own research and convince yourself. The point is — we do not have any other cheap, plentiful resources to convert to energy. Not sunshine, not wind, not methane hydrates, not nuclear, not anything. This will all mean the energy — and all of its downstream ‘outputs’ will cost more and more and more as time goes on. Many countries are already going dark — and I mean “lights out” as their powerplants shut down for a lack of fuel. The fuel they use is natural gas, coal and petroleum. They simply cannot find nor buy the fuel that they need to keep their power on. This situation is growing around the world. In addition to this, we have many other factors in the world now taking place. Global resource depletion is severe and getting worse as populations keep growing. Our fisheries are in collapse in most if not all locations around the world, our levels of pollution, acidification and debris that we are causing in the world’s oceans is unbelievably bad. There are continental sized trash heaps now floating in the Pacific Ocean for example. Coral reefs and mangrove forest, home to the breeding ground for many fish species are in a state of collapse throughout most of the world. We have overfished and depleted most of the wild ‘table fish’ stocks throughout the world. Ocean trawlers, in demand for global food supplies, are literally scraping the bottom of the ocean ‘barrel’ in attempts to meet world demand for fish products, going farther and farther out and are now found in some of the deep parts of the oceans, having already scrapped clean everything else. Over 40% of the world depends on the worlds oceans for protein sources. There is absolutely no doubt that this cannot continue as fisheries collapse. Moreover, attempts at aquaculture to meet world food demand has actually hurt the world’s wild fish populations and is contributing to the depletion of game fish throughout the world. It gets worse. Topsoil losses are already severe throughout the world and the cause for flooding, mudslides and reduced crop losses. Without the heavy application of fertilizers, a petroleum based product, current crop productions are simply not possible. Top soil depletion and salinization (salts) is already the cause in countries like Australia for significantly reduced harvest. Other countries are actually dealing with starvation as a result. Drought is also now found throughout 1/3 of the entire globe and is also behind much of the severe food production drops. Drought is caused by many factors, including global climate change as our ice caps melt. Drought and the lack of fresh water will ultimately be the #1 factor facing most of humanity as our planet warms up. The IPCC has constantly changed its estimates time and time again as it scrambles to record and update its data on global climate change. What was expected to take 100 years is now thought to take as little as 10. We are in serious, serious trouble and I’ve not even covered all of the factors and effects yet. There’s more. Sea ice in the Arctic and Antarctic is melting at an unbelievable rate. This is causing huge amounts of fresh water to dump into the oceans changing it’s chemical composition and makeup. Greenland and other sources, such as the glaciers found all over the world are fast disappearing at unbelievable rates. Gigantic sized “moulins” the size of Niagra Falls have opened up in the ice, dumping huge quantities of water into the ocean and below the ice itself. There is a very real possibility that entire sections of glacier the size of entire states could be floated right off into the ocean. In some place, the glaciers are already gone, forcing entire villages and towns to relocate in an effort to find drinking water. The same is occurring now in the Antarctic too. Huge near continental size ice shelves are cracking and breaking off from the Antarctic ice sheet. The rate at which this is happening is very frightening to climatologist because it signals an irreversible trend that bodes serious danger for all life on earth. This fresh water “dump” is contributing to the global climate change in several ways. The natural currents found in the oceans themselves are changing or even stopping. England for example is facing the effect of the North Atlantic current (thermholine) right now as its climate changes. Plankton are dying in huge numbers, a absolutely critical food element at the very bottom of the food chain. All life in the ocean is dependent upon this. Jellyfish are dramatically increasing as they take over new niches in the ocean sea life as natural predators are eliminated. The salinity of the oceans are changing, taking with it everything we’ve come to know and rely upon as the world’s ice continues to melt. Ice also causes an albedo effect (reflection), less ice means less reflection and the planet heats up even more. Also, frozen in the Siberian permafrost is methane, a dangerous greenhouse gas. Just a few degrees more of warming will cause billions and billions of tons of greenhouse gas to “burp” out into the atmosphere, a exceedingly dangerous tipping point that will push our planet headlong into accelerated and irreversible warming. The Amazon rain forest is in severe peril from over-logging and the practice of slash and burn to open up farmland. Huge tracts of land (80,000 acres per day) are being wiped out to grow “temporary crops” that deplete the soil in less then 3 years, irreversibly depleting the soil and leaving a dry savanna behind. As the lungs of the Earth, the loss of the most critical biohabitat on the planet will have absolutely huge effects on all life on earth, including us. Rain forest contain most of the worlds species of all life forms and help clean the air, absorbing gases like carbon dioxide and create oxygen. Without the world’s rain forests – we will all die. It is my opinion, and that of many other world renown and respected scientist and researchers, that we have already passed many tipping points. In other words, it will only get worse, as we and our children deal with all of these effects. IN fact, it is expected to get much, much worse. How much worse? We are already facing the near-extinction of human life on planet Earth. Within the next 100 years, billions of humans will die by other then natural causes. Most will die violent deaths or die by slow starvation, dehydration, disease, pandemics or war. This is exactly what the Pentagon has predicted in a secret report suppressed by the Bush Administration. Already, the world’s military powers and their governments are orchestrating themselves to commandeer the world’s remaining resources. This is exactly what the U.S. did in Iraq and exactly what is now occurring in the Arctic. The demand for energy, food, water, soil and a habitable climate will be (and already is) so great that nations will war against other nations as they fight over the scraps that are now left. We have entered into a time where we have consumed too much, too quickly and created anthropogenic climate change (human caused) and it is neither reversible, or stoppable at this point. We utterly failed to listen to the warning that were given decades back, and now it really is too late. Even the so-called Green movement or sustainability movement cannot stop this. It’s simply not possible anymore because of the tipping points we have already passed on population, pollution, energy, resource destruction, resource consumption and global climate change. These things are all our fault, they were caused by humans. There are other factors at work such as increased solar energy from the sun, but these have been broadly discounted as being the only factors that have caused the effects I have described. Almost everything now happening today can be directly attributed to human activity on Earth. In essence, life as we know it is actually over. From this point on, we will decline. The meaning and the significance of this statement ought to be as well understood as we can allow. We have killed the planet as we knew it and what we have required and needed to sustain ourselves. We could have lived here indefinitely, but we didn’t. In the process, we have overpopulated the world with billions and billions of people that we can no longer feed, no longer provide enough medicine to, no longer properly clothe, house or even protect. It simply is not possible or desirable for us to go on doing what we’ve done before, because this is in fact, the root cause of all of these problems. Starvation and war are already a way of life in many third-world countries. Most Americans have grown up and become accustomed to this, never really realizing exactly why this has happened. At the very core of these conflicts, is resource depletion. Humans demanded too much, too soon and have suffered as a result. There are many other factors of course, but they all trace to a source issue and that issue is how humans have behaved on and towards this planet we call home. Where we are at today, and how we got there, and what we can do about any of it is the real issue. It is my opinion that we can do little about any of it because the tipping points described above and their causes are now decades old. This is not something that “just happened” or happened even recently, this is something that was caused decades back, but it has taken this long for these effects to show themselves with our present levels of severity. Our present “effects” are almost totally unknown, but we can easily see how they could be worse since there are now so many more of us (at least 2 – 3 times the number). This also means that the future effects will be significantly worse, which is exactly what is being predicted by climate scientists, research analysts and even investigative efforts by the Pentagon and many other sources. All of the “above” has been based upon published data and reports and none of it is hearsay or wild speculation. Many Americans have never heard such things and many that do, simply do not believe them, or do not want to. There is very high levels of rampant and ridiculous denial taking place because what this all signifies is that life on Earth as we know it is over. This is all true. It is over and we are about to find this out. Denial does not make any of this go away. Denial only means that you choose death over life, because that is what is really at issue here — your life. The planetary effects are already underway and unstoppable, immutable and utterly indifferent to your denial. The only thing you can change is yourself and what you alone are willing to do about it. It is my opinion that there is indeed, very little that you can do. Underlying all of these issues is the human-centric that does not want to change. Even if you change, would it be enough? In a word — No, most definitely not. Like voting, your one vote doesn’t even matter, making you simply a part of something that is much, much bigger then yourself. A lifestyle change now will not change the outcome I have described. But irregardless of this, if you intend to survive this coming catastrophe, you will still need to change. It is the only option any of us have. Therefore, I suggest you seriously consider these things with the utmost urgency. This is not “news” to some people, but it may indeed be news to you. Normal reactions are anger, denial, numbness and apathy. This is, believe it or not, part of the process of you assimilating this information. I suggest you don’t stay in any one stage too long, because you do not have time to dink around with this. You need time to assimilate, but you also need time to do what you can, while you still can. Either you will resign yourself to this message, or you will discard it out of hand. The choice is yours. Resignation means that you can now move forward in your life and start figuring out what you intend to do about it. No rescue or plan is forthcoming from the powers-that-be (government) despite the empty promises and rhetoric they are all known for. This is something you alone are going to be responsible for, and it is entirely up to you and nobody else what you intend to do about it. The mainstream media is only reporting a fraction of this news. This is unfortunate, but true. The American media is one of the most highly controlled and censored news sources on Earth. You can use the Internet to dig for information on all of these points if you like, or you can simply read all the sources linked on this and other blogs. Whatever you do, get information and get it now. You can choose to resign yourself to your future fate, or you can choose to take responsibility for your life. I cannot sum this up any other way. I have attempted to keep this blog entry short so that you will read it — and take actions for your life. The choice is yours. There is a tremendous amount of information on this site to help you out. Read it.

Reprinted from Survival Acres blog. We are at the beginning of the end of ‘life as we know it’. As the above article states, there is nothing that we as individuals can do to avert the huge impending disaster. But the longer we live in denial, and attempt to continue with ‘business as usual’, the harder it will be on humans and the natural world. Organic self-sufficiency & local mutual aid is the only way to attempt to preserve our lives, communities and families. The global economic system is doing its utmost to make human life impossible on this planet – if we are lucky that economic system will implode (perhaps with a little help!), leaving us in peace to face the consequences of 100 years of industrial civilisation.
Please, do your research, realise that the corporate media cannot afford to tell the truth, and when you (as quickly as possible) have gotten over your rage, get busy. There is so much for most of us to learn and do.

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