Hello Cold Camel

The questions were for not for me but let me answer them.

(Q) What should an average American working Joe with a family do?
(A) An average american and for that matter any average/ordinary person living anywhere in world at this time should accept the reality that the high life style of 20th century cannot continue for long, he should do what his ancestors were doing since past 12,000 years ago that is farming. Buy for yourself and family atleast one and atmost four acres of farm land somewhere where there is there is good supply naturally by rain, canal etc and make your house there. You not have to move there in one go, instead take your time, visit there first at vacations and then more as price of oil and with it everything increase making it harder and harder to live in city, learn basic skills such as how to grow fundamental crops like wheat, rice, pulses, how to handle farm animals, start with goat and then move to cow, plant some trees now so that later on it is able to give you fruits when you can't buy it from city market, plan to permanently settle down at your farm by the end of 2012.

(Q) What should I teach my children?
(A) If they are still in O-levels or below don't invest on their high school education because by the time they get a degree those skills would no longer be needed. Instead teach them basic skills such as farming, animal keeping etc.

(Q) With your understanding and insight, what are YOU doing for you and yours?
(A) I might not have that kind of indepth knowledge about economics, ecology and systems as professor has but I do have very good indepth knowledge about history which teach me that all civilizations fall sometime and when they fell the best place to live is farm, not city. What I am doing for myself (I not have children yet) is to slowly invest time, energy and money in both possessing farmland and animals and learning skills to operate them.

God is merciful to us. He provide the essential requirements of life in abundance and free, sunlight, rain and air is all free. We can use the same farm to grow crops for us and our children for thousands of years by recycling animal and human manure. Its our greed that make us tie to unsustainable life styles and make us work slaves for our bosses.