Banff Transition

ClubOrlov: “A lot of people just don’t have the right character to deal with collapse. They’ll be running around trying to fix things. That’s the opposite of what they should be doing.”

 

ClubOrlov: “As for the rest of us, who are itching to do something useful within the confines of existing legal framework and economic reality, there is just one path: the path of emergency preparation, with the added twist that the emergency in question has to be accepted as permanent. Community emergency preparation is about the only type of officially sanctioned activity that may allow us to prepare for collapse.

“The first and obvious part of preparing for the permanent emergency is to construct systems that will allow some, ideally most, of the population to survive in the long run without access to transportation fuels, or to any of the technology that comes to a standstill when starved of transportation fuels. The second, equally important part involves laying in sufficient emergency supplies of food, medicine, cooking fuel, temporary shelter for displaced persons, and so on, to allow some, ideally most, of the population to survive in the short run, while the transition non-fossil-fuel-based existence is taking place.”

 

Swans Commentary: “Evident over-production and over-supplies worldwide, a crippling US-led debt burden, trade imbalances that may well turn into proactive protectionist policies (i.e., trade wars), an entire generation drifting toward graveyards (not just in the U.S.), unable to spend any longer, manufacturing dreams that cannot be realized as people are willing to work pennies on the dollar to desperately dig their way out of poverty, and a dearth of intellectual knowledge are not going to bring the economy back to what it should not have been in the first place.”

 

Costco: This THRIVE 1 Year 1 Person Food Storage package contains 84 #10 (gallon size) cans. $799.99 after $200 OFF.

Grains and rice have a shelf life of up to 30 years
Freeze-dried foods have a shelf life of up to 25 years
Dehydrated foods have a shelf life of up to 15 years

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Global Guerillas: “Here’s some interesting analysis from the IMF regarding global unemployment, which may lead (in their words) to a social explosion. The Great Recession has left gaping wounds. High and long-lasting unemployment represents a risk to the stability of existing democracies. …

“One potential future is that the social pressures of D2 will shred what’s left of the social contract in the Western democracies. That would mean that the only way out (for those of us unwilling to be passive) is to build something new.  Something that mitigates our connection to this global system.   My best attempt at a solution to this conundrum is the resilient community.  A resilient community that can protect and sustain us.  A community that can provide prosperity and a future worth living in.  A community that can out compete successfully at a global level while protecting its members from the viciousness of an unconstrained invisible hand.”

 

ClubOrlov: “In all of the descriptions of perilous situations that I have studied, arising during adventures the high seas or in the high mountains, or during armed conflict, a single mistake rarely proves fatal. More often than not, death comes as a result of a sequence of bad choices which reinforce each other. These choices may not appear bad at the time—but they certainly do in retrospect! The end result is a situation in which no further steps can be taken that would not be either harmful or futile. “