Exactly :) I'm glad someone else sees it that way. My mum accused me of "panicking" about Peak Oil the other day, and I tried in vain to point out that panicking is the precise opposite of what I'm doing - I am preparing, and even if things don't turn out the way I'm expecting it's still good to have a more sustainable lifestyle, the skills I'm learning, and the emergency measures in place which can be used in other situations.
Good for you. I'm not preparing in the way you are, but I appreciate that if it all goes belly up, I'll be stuck. The closest I got to any of that kind of preparation was stocking up on some tinned food before Y2K (completely useless, as I ended up spending it staying with papersky in Swansea), and psyching myself up to cycling to work five days a week, or possibly working a bit from home, rather than taking the Tube come the next flu pandemic.
Note that's "when", not "if"—just because it's a been a while since the next pandemic is no reason to expect the cycle of periodic pandemics has been broken. Same with an asteriod strike—not the once a geological blue moon dinosaur killer the media use to scare people, but the once a century or more citykiller, of the sort that have in the last few centuries struck empty land in Siberia, Saudi Arabia and the South Pacific (and killed thousands of cattle in South America), but which, on today's crowded Earth (http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0610/earthlights02_dmsp_big.jpg), it is only a matter of time before one strikes a densely inhabited region.
A decade ago I was determined to live five hundred years (I appreciated I might have spent some time frozen in the middle while the tech caught up). That kind of attitude gives you the long-term view, when it's not a case of screwing up the Earth and leaving your descendants to sort out the mess, but messing up your own future...
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Date: 2007-10-30 06:53 pm (UTC)Good for you. I'm not preparing in the way you are, but I appreciate that if it all goes belly up, I'll be stuck. The closest I got to any of that kind of preparation was stocking up on some tinned food before Y2K (completely useless, as I ended up spending it staying with
Note that's "when", not "if"—just because it's a been a while since the next pandemic is no reason to expect the cycle of periodic pandemics has been broken. Same with an asteriod strike—not the once a geological blue moon dinosaur killer the media use to scare people, but the once a century or more citykiller, of the sort that have in the last few centuries struck empty land in Siberia, Saudi Arabia and the South Pacific (and killed thousands of cattle in South America), but which, on today's crowded Earth (http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0610/earthlights02_dmsp_big.jpg), it is only a matter of time before one strikes a densely inhabited region.
A decade ago I was determined to live five hundred years (I appreciated I might have spent some time frozen in the middle while the tech caught up). That kind of attitude gives you the long-term view, when it's not a case of screwing up the Earth and leaving your descendants to sort out the mess, but messing up your own future...