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Hi Nicole,
I’d really like to hear your thoughts on how we deal with over 400 commercial nuclear reactors that require maintenance. My sense is that we’re at a make-it or break-it point in human history. If we don’t advance to the point where we have sufficient energy to deal with our past mistakes, then it’s very likely we don’t have a future at all. Does anyone really think that we have the option of dialing it all down and returning to a simpler time? I recommend Eric Lerner’s 1991 book The Big Bang Never Happened and a look at the work his group is doing on pulsed-plasma fusion technology.
Thanks all, it’s been fascinating to think about all of these topics and hear what’s on the minds of others. For those who think the financial side of this crisis will continue to play out, there is a unique voice out there speaking to a deflationary bust in 2015, a massive QE4 response that dwarfs the last three, a temporary inflation cycle into 2020, and then the real depression. The only writer I’ve found who actually called what we’ve seen in oil, gold, US dollar, and long-bonds comments over at Seeking Alpha under the handle Contrarianadvisor. His comments are archived back to early 2013.
Many of us crisis-focused worriers, some who have been calling wolf for decades, are not able to go the perma-culture route and will be surviving in urban communities. We’ll be doing our best to support each other and it makes sense keep a heads-up on managing the financial side of things, as the deck-chairs become fewer and potential inflationary waves sweep the remaining ones out to sea.
I agree with Nicole that promises that can’t be kept, won’t be. It’s then a question of how the renege goes down and the time-frames involved. I suspect it will be a volatile series of reactionary dynamics over many years which accomplish the task.
But, in the meantime, if there is a short-term bust this year, followed by an inflationary cycle for a few more, that process would really throw a lot of people for a loop.
2015 should tell the tale on that scenario.
Thanks Nicole, that’s a very useful summary and link guide. I’ll pass it on to my network. I’ve become increasingly convinced of your view over the last few years. In the Austin, TX area there are a vast number of folks going local in hundreds of ways. My end of it is networking with food growers and helping get folks started who haven’t done much of that. I’m retired from electronics manufacturing and have a good deal of time to participate. Here’s one of my hobbies, distributing Garden Towers, essentially at cost. gardentowerproject.com
