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Hi beggar,
I am further up the coast and while the main biking season will shortly be ended by rain and cold and the summer uphere did not exist it still hasn't been bad because I finally got my wife to ride a bike. This after 30 years of coaxing ...we bought a tandem!! A great device very fast with less drag and two motors. Congratulations on the cargo bike, how is it on hills? I am thinking of building a trailer for the tandum .. should attract comment for a day or two I think.
While I am as 'into bikes' as I can be, what caught my eye was your statement:
Anyhow I think it will be anything but lonely, if the comparison between the 1950's and now is indicative. I keep waiting for things like TV and such to break down so everyone will have to come out of their houses and be sociable again. I am old enough to remember playing with kids kiddycorner from my grandmothers house while their parents sat on my grandmothers porch and socialized. People actually came out of the house, in summer anyway, for the entertainment of the street... And if the only people that are finally left are a few survivors, they will be survivors because they have grouped together so personally that they will be anything but lonely. What it will be like, to borrow a movie (and song) title is, 'The Way We Were',in-- The Epipalaeolithic Era-- "The Age of Stone(groove)";)
Keep on cycling and have your patch kit handy!
Hey CR,
I ride cargo trikes and pedicabs -- three wheeled pedaled things. I ride trikes made by Organicengines and they can be seen at organicengines.com.
Just click on the SUV link to see the Sensible Utility Vehicles.
RE: the Eremozoic Era refers tro the fact that we are in an anthropogenic extinction process, and a rapid species die-off at that.
Wilson and other scientists point out that we have destroyed the thin quilt of habitat that covers the planet to the point that over half of all species will be gone by 2100, and the planet's water, soil, and atmosphere will be so changed prior to 2100 that earth will be a hostile environment for whatever is left of our species.
The idea is that we will not have a peaceful pleasant descent into a groovy stone age, but a very violent descent into extinction. Put together all of the weapons of war, the toxic technological fabric we have woven as our cocoon, and a surge of human violence, and we have the makings of a very lonely place to be within 50 or 100 years.
The Eremozoic Era seems to me to be the most likley outcome. Even so, I like the notion of an Epipalaeolithic Era better. Nature is full of fun suprizes, and this may be our best hope.