I have seen the future, and I doesn't like it.

[green-man-2010.livejournal.com]

Life after the oil crash.
Ok, last time, I went and pinned it on a vid that most people cannot read at work.
So I am letting y'all boot up something you can read quitely when you oght to be working :)

http://www.lifeaftertheoilcrash.net/

In case you have trouble reading graphs, this one has a Blue Peter style 'talk you through the implications' - complete with original sources, for those who wanna check.

It might seem like I am doom mongering , but I just want to say -
Let's put more into Planned Parenthood, make it optional, but make it a damned sight easier at home and abroad.

Let's have oil rationing, sooner rather than later. Let's also have everything rationed if it's made with oil.

let's try to be civilised about the few resources left and share them out among ourselves.

Let's start reducing consumption , reusing things and recycling more.

let's remember that civilisation as we know it will be over by 2050, if it lasts that long.

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[fourth-moon.livejournal.com]

> let's remember that civilisation as we know it will be over by 2050, if it lasts that long.

Weirdly, that conjures up an image of 2050 - everything's different, I'm a wrinkly old woman, the teens of the day know of course everything "people back then" did wrong (mostly because they grew up knowing that water and energy are precious commodities just like we were brought up knowing they're dirt cheap) and complaining to me why I was so damn wasteful.

What the ...? I mean, I'm using either a bike or public transportation to get anywhere. Or I walk. I heat my rooms maybe one month out of twelve. I'm one of maybe three people in a fifty households apartment building recycling not just glass and paper but 90% of my waste. And it won't matter, in forty years time I'll be grouped with the people who chuck every bit of waste into one bin because changing habits is too much effort.

[green-man-2010.livejournal.com]

Oh, I'm a baby boomer and it's happening to me already.

"The pension funds - we are screwed!"

The previous generation had kids coz they had no choice.
my generation had a choice, but could see no incentives on bringing kids into a world where ' they' didn't care about the quality of human life.

So, there were fewer kids coming on stream.