Comments on: Can You Spare a Dime? Why We Could….But Won't

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By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:14:00 +0000

Bullseye!

I especially got a chuckle about your take on the “gentlemen over at the Oil Drum”. Too true, eh. Can’t see the forest for the trees.

By: Rosa

Rosa — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 13:26:00 +0000

Thank you so much for this post!

My one great hope is that poverty moves people to organize themselves, as it did during the Great Depression. Things like the worker-run factories in Argentina make me very hopeful. Right now people have too much to lose to really risk rocking the boat…but that may be changing.

By: feonixrift

feonixrift — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 03:01:00 +0000

Thank you for writing this. I always look forward to your posts… They remind me that I’m not nuts, that there a light at the end of this chaos, and most of all that I’m not nuts. Very often, you write what I’ve been thinking, only with far more eloquence and clarity. I would have a far harder time accepting the data in front of my face if it weren’t for your writing.

By: Heather G

Heather G — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 02:21:00 +0000

This post certainly struck a chord with me too. I’m debating whether or not to continue with certain memberships or not, and/or which ones to keep up. Currently a member of Coop America, Sierra Club, and Union of Concerned Scientists. I think they’re some of the more useful and effective organizations, but I’ve been wondering how effective any of them truly are, in terms of the long view of how the next generations will live. Or maybe supporting them is one of the ways to contribute to improving things for the next generations…

I think I’d still like to contribute to them if we can afford it after the move to Ashfield, but first we have to get our debt as close to zero as we can… how well can you help others if you can’t even help yourself?

And of course, we’ll be working on getting active in our new community, and they have needs too… sigh. It’s never easy, is it? At any scale, limited resources are limited resources, and we simply can’t do everything we’d like to do — or even need to do, perhaps.

btw, I’ve found some good info on bamboo; I’ll post something when it seems more appropriate as a comment to one of your posts.

By: BlueSkies

BlueSkies — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 23:18:00 +0000

Well said – it seems that more people are starting to come to the conclusion that we are in fact going to continue accelerating until we hit the wall, and to more seriously ponder and discuss what that will mean. When I look around, I have great difficulty imagining how the majority of people are going to even begin to cope. I fear the most likely next crisis is a financial one that, with so many in debt over their heads, will result in a large segment of the population becoming destitute or close to it and thus powerless. On the other hand, it is their debt that makes them feel powerless now, and when they hit the wall and have nothing left to lose perhaps then we will see more of them awakening to the new reality and taking an active role in reshaping our culture.

The frustration of being unable to interest otherwise thoughtful and intelligent friends in even the basics of peak oil have made it difficult to envision a future in which the next decade is not much more traumatic than it could have been – but that certainly seems to be where we are headed.

By: tk

tk — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 22:42:00 +0000

Once again a thought-provoking post. Thank you. We CAN survive and we will without those little “necessities.” It’s a matter of how hard we can make it for ourselves, or how much we can get used to it before it happens.