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had3z on May 24, 2008 - 9:39am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

i really mean what i said. if you look beyond all this, you'll see that all will be fine. a couple of billions of us might die, but there are far worse things than death. it hurts because we won't ditch our bad habbits

in the end, we're going to have a self sustainable lifestyle, wether we like it or not :)

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Dragonfly41 on May 24, 2008 - 11:17am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

Quoting REM's song "It's The End Of The World & I Feel Fine"? They said it first.

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CEOJr1963 on May 24, 2008 - 3:41pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

The Homeless people I see and talk to think everything is going just fine, but they don't want all the newer influx of homeless people messing up their good things.

I have noticed a great big influx of newer homeless people in the soup lines and Breakfast feeding areas.

I Know some of this is because Little Rock Arkansas was the Place to come for Diaster Relief after all the Tornados of the previous few weeks and months, so some of these new faces are not really here to stay. They are just finding the feeding stations as a great place to go while in town.

As one of my friends stated it, " the real homeless are the front runners of the newly homeless." ( Miss Jeesie Goodrum: Local author and Homeless advocate ).

I wonder where we will be in 5 years?

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Cid Yama on May 24, 2008 - 5:46pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

Energy fears looming, new survivalists prepare

Convinced the planet's oil supply is dwindling and the world's economies are heading for a crash, some people around the country are moving onto homesteads, learning to live off their land, conserving fuel and, in some cases, stocking up on guns they expect to use to defend themselves and their supplies from desperate crowds of people who didn't prepare.

The exact number of people taking such steps is impossible to determine, but anecdotal evidence suggests that the movement has been gaining momentum in the last few years.

These energy survivalists are not leading some sort of green revolution meant to save the planet. Many of them believe it is too late for that, seeing signs in soaring fuel and food prices and a faltering U.S. economy, and are largely focused on saving themselves.

Some are doing it quietly, giving few details of their preparations _ afraid that revealing such information as the location of their supplies will endanger themselves and their loved ones. They envision a future in which the nation's cities will be filled with hungry, desperate refugees forced to go looking for food, shelter and water.

http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2008/may/24/energy-fears-looming-new-sur...

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Leanan on May 24, 2008 - 8:01pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

I saw that. PeakOil.com is mentioned:

On the PeakOil.com Web site, where upward of 800 people gathered on recent evenings, believers engage in a debate about what kind of world awaits.

Some members argue there will be no financial crash, but a slow slide into harder times. Some believe the federal government will respond to the loss of energy security with a clampdown on personal freedoms. Others simply don't trust that the government can maintain basic services in the face of an energy crisis.

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