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Politics : Rat's Nest - Chronicles of Collapse -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Bill on the Hill who wrote (789)	7/7/2005 1:59:47 AM
From: Wharf Rat	Respond to of 24225

Thanks so very much. I set out to help folks get ready, because I feel so helpless to stop this locomotive coming at us, at least the bigger us. We don't have any idea how we'll cope with it, but we all knew that it would be a lot easier if every community was preparing. If for no other reason, it would mean we don't have to deal with 4 or 6 million Southern Californians living in SF, Berserkeley, and the Silicon Valley :>) heading up to rip off the 80K of us in the county. Not that we wouldn't win, having homefield advantage. And, I have a lot of family on SI, and I didn't want to see them get flattened by that locomotive. I figured one thing I could do was increase awareness. Started this, and started sending out End of Suburbia. I also wanted it to be a community resource, to make it so people wouldn't have to reinvent the wheel. The Nest has got to be one of the few places around that can tell you how to farm worms for a school program. Then, it just becomes a matter of scaring enuf people into getting the programs going at their schools. Nothing to it. LMAO. I meant to write earlier. Thanks for being here; sounds like you have your shit together more than I do. But, I'm waiting for my rebate approval to put in solar, so a few months from now, I'll be better off. I had it much more together when I was still married, tho. We had chickens and bees; not stuff I'm prepared to deal with by mice elf, especially when I am working. I haven't even been able to deal with my garden, and I haven't even gone for a walk in the orchard this year. Have to start irrigating it tomorrow or Fri. Lots of rain this spring. I sort of see this thing as a Whole Earth Catalog. Unfortunately, I think what I have been mostly doing is chronicling the arrival of peak oil and the train. I wish I had more solutions to offer. Somehow, I don't think I'll get too far by spamming other threads with "Eat at Rat's; learn how to prepare acorn gruel". I was even afraid to mention it, cuz I didn't want people to think my community is wacko. There's a guy across town (an hour away by road) who really has this thing nailed; apparently has data showing stuff like how any bags of grain you need to grow to support range free chickens during the rainy season, etc. He hasn't been coming to the meetings because he thinks they aren't serious enuf. (Me, too; I get upset every time Willits folks get up and start singing a homegrown song about energy as an "announcement". Ain't no game. Ain't time to develop "community". Ain't got time to train facilitators to train facilitators. Except I handle the freak out better than him, and hang with the program. But when they get dumb, like miming which group you want to work with, I mime smoking, and then tell them I'm in 5th grade now.) Anyway, thanks for being here. Paddle or Die :>)