Collapse Gap Revisited

Good Monday to you.

Two for you this week to get your heads around. Dmitry makes some comments on another article written by Richard Heinberg regarding collapse preparation of the last two superpowers US and China.

"What would make more sense than just trying to put off the inevitable is quite simply to build resilience throughout society, re-localizing basic social systems involving food, manufacture, and finance." - Richard's article can be read here http://www.postcarbon.org/article/67429-china-or-the-u-s-which-will.

"Since collapse is unavoidable, the obvious fall-back strategy would be to invest in local resiliency and self-sufficiency. Since neither government appears the least bit interested in such matters, it is time for us to recognize them for what they are to us: utterly irrelevant. Paying attention to national politics can only distract us from doing whatever we can as individuals and local communities." - Dmitry's comments can be read here http://cluborlov.blogspot.com/2010/02/collapse-gap-revisited.html.

My own thoughts on both are that i'm heading in the right direction. We must all move towards a lower energy use future, whereby local communities provide as much as they can for themselves (remember permaculture 101, individaul Self-Reliance AND Community Self-Sufficiency). We can prepare ourselves for a more austere way of living. We can renew old friendships and seek out new ones. We can learn something new, this week, or this month, or this year, but learn we must! We can do so much now to help ourselves... the alternative is to wait and hope that our "leaders" will make the right decisions for us and provide for us when we can't.

Your call.