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Previously successful Prophet looks at our Future
From Civil Eats
Peak-Oil Prophet James Howard Kunstler
on Food, Fuel and
Why He Became an Almost Vegan
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KT: In The Long Emergency, published in 2005, you predicted with astounding accuracy how the subprime mortgage meltdown would unfold. Your latest novel, World Made By Hand, takes place in the near future after a massive flu outbreak that originated in Mexico. Um, what should we start worrying about next?
JHK: Worry about the “recovery” that never comes and the insidious collapse of our institutions and arrangements that will proceed from this. Worry about lost incomes and vocations that will never come back (e.g. marketing exec for Target, Inc.) and the need to find new ways to be useful to your fellow human beings (and incidentally perhaps earn a living).
Worry about finding a community to live in that is cohesive enough to stave off anarchy at the local level. Worry about building the best garden you can and making good compost. Worry about how difficult it is to learn how to play a musical instrument at age 47.
KT: You recently wrote “there’s no way we can continue the petro-agriculture system of farming and the Cheez Doodle and Pepsi Cola diet that it services. The public is absolutely zombified in the face of this problem — perhaps a result of the diet itself.” OK, so how will we stock our post-peak-oil pantries? Do we really need to start hoarding rice and beans?
JHK: Get some kind of a hand-cranked home grain mill. Personally, I think it is indeed a good idea to lay in a supply of beans, lentils, rice, oats, other grains and don’t forget salt, boullion (soups can sustain us with any number of ingredients), dried onion flakes, spices (chilies and curries especially).
Our just-in-time, three-day’s-worth-of-inventory supermarket system is very susceptible to disruption. And we’re very far from establishing workable local food networks in this country.
The fragility of petro-ag is being aggravated by the collapse of bank lending now. Farmers need borrowed money desperately. Capital is as important an “input” as methane-based fertilizers. I think we could see problems with food production and distribution anytime from here on.
KT: You’re an avid gardener — do you grow much of your own food? Do you worry that you’ll have to guard your greens with a gun if our collapsing economy sends the mall rats outdoors to forage after the food courts run out of pretzel nuggets?............Read it all at Civil Eats
Peak-Oil Prophet James Howard Kunstler
on Food, Fuel and
Why He Became an Almost Vegan
.................
KT: In The Long Emergency, published in 2005, you predicted with astounding accuracy how the subprime mortgage meltdown would unfold. Your latest novel, World Made By Hand, takes place in the near future after a massive flu outbreak that originated in Mexico. Um, what should we start worrying about next?
JHK: Worry about the “recovery” that never comes and the insidious collapse of our institutions and arrangements that will proceed from this. Worry about lost incomes and vocations that will never come back (e.g. marketing exec for Target, Inc.) and the need to find new ways to be useful to your fellow human beings (and incidentally perhaps earn a living).
Worry about finding a community to live in that is cohesive enough to stave off anarchy at the local level. Worry about building the best garden you can and making good compost. Worry about how difficult it is to learn how to play a musical instrument at age 47.
KT: You recently wrote “there’s no way we can continue the petro-agriculture system of farming and the Cheez Doodle and Pepsi Cola diet that it services. The public is absolutely zombified in the face of this problem — perhaps a result of the diet itself.” OK, so how will we stock our post-peak-oil pantries? Do we really need to start hoarding rice and beans?
JHK: Get some kind of a hand-cranked home grain mill. Personally, I think it is indeed a good idea to lay in a supply of beans, lentils, rice, oats, other grains and don’t forget salt, boullion (soups can sustain us with any number of ingredients), dried onion flakes, spices (chilies and curries especially).
Our just-in-time, three-day’s-worth-of-inventory supermarket system is very susceptible to disruption. And we’re very far from establishing workable local food networks in this country.
The fragility of petro-ag is being aggravated by the collapse of bank lending now. Farmers need borrowed money desperately. Capital is as important an “input” as methane-based fertilizers. I think we could see problems with food production and distribution anytime from here on.
KT: You’re an avid gardener — do you grow much of your own food? Do you worry that you’ll have to guard your greens with a gun if our collapsing economy sends the mall rats outdoors to forage after the food courts run out of pretzel nuggets?............Read it all at Civil Eats
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Green,
hey, long time no hear, lol,
look, I'm investigating and doing research, on the Christian Right and how they profit off of the abuse of women and children,
I stumbled onto something, by accident, and then started researching, and it is just Unreal,
ever heard of the dominionists? Rich Warren, etc?
Well, its far more widespread than many might think...and,
its the 'false church' that goes all the way back, to the Bible--those that Paul warned about, they key, is that these dogs as he so called him, ravenous wolves, were forcing their way in, during that era, attempting to force circumcision.
There has been some findings of a few Christian women, of some old books, by Christian women of old, who found out about translations and how these men [during the early Catholic church] and even Luther, changed texts on women, one of these authors is Katherine Bushnell, she fought trafficking of girls here in America, back in the early days and she also worked in China I believe, found how translations were being used in China, to perpetuate the abuse of women,
anyway, when researching and talking to these small group of women, found there is a HUGE backlash against the Christian feminists [true feminists, not the token kind the church likes to spew], and it is so sinister...in the Protestant as well as the Evangelical,
probably I'm sure, is also tied into that whole Anglican pro-Islam movement in Europe-UK, they are a Part of this global dominion and,
any Christian that doesn't adhere to the dominion teachings will be martyred, according to the 'apostles' of this new global Cult, and it is a cult,
a Taliban type of cult...what I didn't know, was how tied in they are, with even Obama, with other world leaders-religions, and yes, Nazis. Not that I'm surprised, no,
but, there is a movement among Christian women, and some men, that are challenging the church, going back finding Hebraic and Greek translations to texts [no, they are not agnostics or gnostics, two totally different ideologies].
Why I am telling you this, the dominionist teachings, are hugely in influence in Africa, such as in Kenya..where Odinga, Obama's cousin rules.
They are allies to Political Islam,
yet, they appear, many of them to be hostile to Islam, they are not, and it is going to be through the fundamentalist taliban church, that I will put money on it, Sharia Law in the US, will not only be introduced, but welcomed by these fundies false church [though most think they are the real thing]
to stamp out feminism and women's rights. These men and the women dogs who support them, are on the warpath,
and Heart whether she knows it or not, is one of their targets...because the Quiverfull boys are a huge part of it,
and its Huge. But, my point is, its the monies, and where those monies are being channeled, that is truly, the most corrupt of all, and it is GLOBAL.
Christians who oppose misogyny, tyranny, racism, capitalism, etc., are going to be persecuted, not by society, no, [though they will fall in later]
but by the very false church, and no one will even suspect. [except for a minority of Christians outside the church, who have caught wind of it]
Oh, btw, found some interesting scriptures that you might want to post on your blog, about God and the environment and animal rights,
there are TONS OF THEM, did you know, God demanded, a Sabbath rest for the land, earth,
every seven years, and if that wasn't obeyed, God said, the land would vomit the people out? Saw that and just blew my mind,
I have been compiling a list, will send it to you, it is just really awesome. For the right wing neocons to mock efforts against global warming,
they are in fact, contrary to the very Word of God. [Bible]
peace,
Natasha
Well I have one for you, on be a vegetarian, straight from God:
And God said, Behold, I have given you
every herb bearing seed,
which is upon the face of the earth,
and every tree,
in which is the fruit
and a tree yielding seed;
to you it shall be for meat.
- Genesis 1:29.
and listen to me this once if you never do again - there are two simple books you should read - some people don't respect them because they are not heavy but I do
First on the fall of women, read "Ariadne" by June Brindel, 1980, St. Martin's Press. She was the last priestess. The book tells the Theseus myth from the point of view of women whose world and status was deteriorating with the rise of the nation states. You need to know a lot about myths and the old religions.
Second read "The Education of Oversoul 7" It is one book of a trilogy but the only one you need read. It is how we are all connected through the DNA -- it is a different concept of god and religion that is very liberating - especially if there are people you have strange ties to that feel like family even when you are separated.
and last -- if you want to get into the hypocrisy of the Christan right read my post on Carrie prejean - MISS CA -- i think it is in the 10 latest posts on the index on the green col
they are defending her as their version of all that is right in the world - pun intended.
Paul hated women -- he was the one who kicked them out of leadership roles in the church. I think he had syphilis.
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