Re: The Long Emergency

Hello Mojave :-) I viewed, and read all the material, at the site you recomended. I would definitely have to say that my sentiments are aligned with this man's considerations, of what the future landscape will be, for humanity. I have not read this book, but have written down the information, and will check it out at Barnes and Noble. After seeing the picture of Kunstler's at the Amazon site, I remember seeing him in a documentary DVD I ordered called, " The End Of Suburbia ". It is excellent, and goes into the many issues of our unsustainable urban lifestyles and communities, we have created. I think I also have seen Kunstler on Free Speech TV, Dish 9415. I see he mentions the possibility of the nation, disolving into seperate, independent entities, at some future point in time. Well as a matter of interest, regarding that point, there were meetings held in Vermont, late this summer, where the topic of conversation was this very subject, being that some people, seeing the errant course that the political structure of this country has taken us on, see that the only way to make truly meaningful change, will be to come together with like minded people, to create a new, soveriegn state, one, in which its own course, can be more inteligently managed towards a sensible, and sustainable future. One needs only to look at the once unified, collection of states that was the USSR, and remember how quickly it disolved, under the right circumstances. The US is not immune to such a future. Great change is coming, on many fronts, and if the people in this country, on an individual level, do not take the time to increase thier awarness of the nature of these various ills for humanity, then they will indeed, give themselves little chance of being able to put themselves in a position, where they can " possibly " cope, with the new realities of what life will be, as the Mirage, of what we have lived, gets reduced to the practical necesities of survival.