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>Discovery  - James Howard Kunstler - 
On the brighter side, there is a substantial repository of knowledge re: self-sustainability amongst the elderly who grew up in a more frugal time without all the bells and whistles.

In my mid-sized city on Vancouver Island, I am heartened at how many young people have a veggie patch and a couple of fruit trees. Some living in apartments grow salad stuff in pots on their balconies, even though a wide range of produce is available in the supermarkets. The local farmers' markets are well supported and the smaller grocery chains promote locally grown food. Of course, the more exotic foods are imported but one can live without them in a crunch. There are community gardens where someone living in an apartment can have a small productive patch of ground and access to advice from more experienced growers.

Humans are highly adaptable and, if the S really hits the fan, I suspect goodwill and good intra-community cooperation might prevail, at least in some areas.



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Beginning of the headline :I t looks like 2016 will be the year that humanfolk learn that the stuff they value was not worth as much as they thought it was. It will be a harrowing process because a great many humans are abandoning ownership of things that are rapidly losing value — e.g. stocks on the Shanghai exchange — and stuffing whatever “money” they can recover into the US dollar, the assets and usufructs of which are also going through a very painful reality value adjustment. Of course this calls into question forem... Read More
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