[pedalling_faster]

Sharon Astyk has an interesting essay at Carolyn Baker's website

http://carolynbaker.net/site/content/view/418/

talks about inter-related processes such as Climate Change, Peak Oil, the Credit 'Crisis' (how can it be a crisis if it was planned ?), in an essay where she expounds on the term James Kunstler may have devised, the Long Emergency.

i like the phrase, "1000 foot tidal wave". not a perfect metaphor, because the watery part would be over quickly if we did have such a big tidal wave. Also, however destructive such an event would be, it would be localized in its effect.

{Peak Oil + Climate Change + etc.} won't be over quickly, and it won't be localized

but i still like the term, "1000 foot tidal wave". i rarely have the feeling that i'm doing enough to prepare for it, just that i'm doing my approximate best to prepare for it.

[Ferretlover]

Someone here (my apologies for forgetting who!!) called it The Great Correction.
Sounds right to me!

[azreal60]

The Great Awakening is already trade marked.

Damn you Daniel Quinn, DAMN YOU!!!!

[SchroedingersCat]

How about 'The Deep Doo-Doo'?

[topcat]

Our interesting future.

[drgoodword]

My preferred term is "The Great Collapse."

[gampy]

The Big Fizzle

[bodigami]

The End of Life as We Know It After the Flamming Shit Hits the Fan (TEOLAWKIATFSHTF)

[mgibbons19]

The future?

[wisconsin_cur]

"The Great Testing"

Think you've chosen well? Think your as much the man/woman as your gr-gr grandparents? Is our way of life or our values better or more sophisticated then others?

I guess we'll find out.

The test will not be postponed, there are no do-overs, we are about to experience the fasting manifestation of grade deflation in the history of humanity and the stakes are life and death. So I hope you brought two sharp #2 pencils and your thinking caps.

I guess I'm guilty of at least one conciet (a phrase that really is humorous when I think about it) that what ever happens that when I pass into the next life everyone of my forefathers would be proud to call me their "son."

[BigTex]

The Doomathon.

Alternate entry: Overshootapalooza.

[catbox]

"The Big Mind Fuck"

[skeptik]

Poverty.

[vision-master]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ferretlover', 'S')omeone here (my apologies for forgetting who!!) called it The Great Correction.
Sounds right to me!

[RonMN]

Wisconsin_cur Wrote:
that what ever happens that when I pass into the next life everyone of my forefathers would be proud to call me their "son."


AMEN Brother!!!

[FreakOil]

Gaia's Bitch-Slap

[sittinguy]

The End of Life as We Know It After the Flamming Shit Hits the Fan (TEOLAWKIATFSHTF)



the greater depression

I also like, the long slow shit slide (TLSSS)

[static66]

The Long Emergency.

One principle that is an ecological upsetter
Is that if anything is good, then more of it is better,
And this mis-understanding sets us very,very wrong,
For no relation in the world is linear for long.

[Hawkcreek]

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