Well, I didn't make up the rules, and personally over the years I've made a real attempt not to contribute to any of this mess but "facts is facts." We can pretty much expect that this next year, this next magic year of 2009, will be the one in which human-kind really fucks up. We will get behind the supply curve, due to frozen credit markets and incompetence, and make a future of peak oil and its ramifications--until now not really a certainty--inevitable. The ball was dropped, and we will suffer the consequences. As well, in terms of climate change, we needed to get on capping emissions. Does anyone really believe that the will exists in this society to reduce CO2 emissions by 90 percent by 2020? This is what it will take, optimistically even, or we're just buggered, and there is no going back. Technology? Bunk. Unless you can roll out a winning technology next week on a global scale, forget it. It would take 20 years to implement anything meaningful on a meaningful scale if we started with unlimited funding today. . .
Forget it.
Rambling Jack: A (sort of) true story about a Japanese stray cat
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Here’s a sneak peak at my recent recording of an original tune. This song’s
original iteration was for my 4th~6th grade students at a Juku (ステップ学習塾) in
Yam...
3 days ago
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I never tire of reading your optimistic missives, Jay!
Best insurance for all of this: build a good still somewhere well hidden and lock in a good network of root or fruit suppliers and fuel of some sort to fire it, and you'll have something better than cash! In good times we celebrate with booze - in bad times we sop up our pain with it. Either way you win if you can supply the goods! Just be sure you have the armor and ammo to protect your means of exchange...
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