Dismantle Civilisation

Sharon Astyk makes us all feel better about not getting that dream vegetable garden planted this year. Its a great article. If your garden isn’t as full as you’d planned, don’t panic. Growing food is a steep learning curve, and whatever you plant, your garden will get better every year, what was once hard work […] Read more »

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So says Charles Hugh Smith on oftwominds.com
In fact the dissolution of the insolvent parts of the U.S. banking sector–yes, the investment banks, the money-center banks, the regional banks, and the savings and loans–would actually be an enormously positive development for the nation and indeed the world.
Let’s start with the fact that a huge number of […] Read more »

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by Charles Hugh Smith, oftwominds.com, critiquing Dmitri Orlov’s book, and discussing differences between USSR collapse and US collapse.
The cultural and structural differences between the USSR and the USA are significant, and if Orlov had been an anthropologist his book might have drawn somewhat less sensationalist distinctions. His primary thesis is that the Soviet Union was […] Read more »

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Published at PeakoilBlues.com
If you aren’t feeling some degree of apprehension right now, you aren’t reading the news. Here are some of my thoughts for turning that emotional energy into constructive action:
1. SET A GOAL TO CUT YOUR EXPENSES by some concrete number—10%, 20%, 30%, even 50%, and set up a plan to do it. Reducing […] Read more »

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Euan Mearns at Oil Drum: Europe.

From riches to rags
The bar chart up top indicates the cost of importing oil and gas to the UK ballooning to about $200 billion (£100 billion) per annum by 2013 - just 5 years away. This completely dwarfs the riches of North Sea oil and gas production the UK enjoyed […] Read more »

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“You have been telling the people that this is the Eleventh Hour. Now you must go back and tell the people that this is the hour. And, there are things to be considered…Where are you living?
What are you doing?
What are your relationships?
Are you in right relation?
Where is your water?
Know your garden.
It is time to […] Read more »

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The empire of cheap food is crumbling
You. Will. Not. Be. Able. To. Get. Food. Need this be spelled out any more plainly? It is time to consider that the stage has been set for petroleum-induced famine.
We have “innocently” accommodated rising population with greater and greater food production via technology and the profit motive. But now […] Read more »

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by Hari Heath, Dec - 2002 “Idaho Observer” (reprinted at Information Clearing House)
In the movie, when Morpheus is about to offer Neo the choice between either the red pill or the blue pill, he explains:
“You’re here because you know something. What you know you can’t explain — but you feel it. You’ve felt it […] Read more »

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