Didn't I say a couple of years ago.....

AD9898_2

That the !!!! was going to hit the fan ? We have just been in the eye of the storm the last year or two and now it really begins...

We will see $400 oil within a decade, Norway shutting off gas exports by 2022 etc.. The worlds economies run on cheap energy, without it, the logistics of nearly everything we hold dear ceases to function.

I said a few years back that the decade upto 2007 was the best we are ever likely to see, nothing I've seen and heard changes that opinion. If you crave for what has been over the last 60 years, I'm afraid time is fast running out...

Live each day as if it were your last... as one day it will be :-)

nearlynew

Ultimately, all of our current problems are down to a dwindling supply of resources.

"money" is really just a claim on resources, consumption of which has been brought forward through massive debt.

There's just too much (printed/promised) money and not enough resources.

Dan:_4

Hi Ad, how's things?

Blacklight

I think this is a fitting place to repost this post (or posts) that I saw elsewhere recently on the subject:

greece will default it is mathematically impossible for them not to. we are so wholly exposed to that we will not be able to fend off a depression larger than the 1930s. it cannot be saved. there is no point in debate or protest. the rich will simply flee. the middle class will discover what HARD TIMES are and the working class will feel hunger again.

we are leaderless and without direction.
the end is here.

at least for the duration of mostly all our lives of the posters of here, at this age.
you will never feel the quality of life again. make the most of the 2 months you have.

you (i mean the stupid public) will only see the first signs of this great depression when they see the first initial KFC drive throughs become boarded up. that will be the signal thats the easiest to see in all this fug and smoke.

look for it. look for the boards and the decaying sign of the colonels enthusiastic 1950s face. his eye smashed by thrown rocks for pleasure and the interior destroyed by rough sleepers and thieves. the fire burned buildings around the fringes of industrial sites to costly to clean up aside from looters of raw scrap. the graffiti and the thrill of a emergency vehicle mechanically unable to respond to a serious incident.

even two fairly highly ranked police officers i know are leaving. they are simply leaving.

these are just the first waves of the knowing. most people will act as my previous post. this is what our fellow country men have become. i wish there were some advantage of our knowledge base, but thats quite depressing when you realise that yes, we were right, but we will pay just as harshly. housing doesnt even come into it. food and security will be so 2010s.

having watched the rounds of political conference.
we are finished because nothing has changed.

they had one chance, and they all failed to see it.
even then it was too rough for the public to swallow.

instead we will die of terminal financial corruption, inaction and political acting.

tomterm8

How cheerful.

Blacklight

tomterm8 wrote: »

How cheerful.

It does make you wonder what these posters are like to know in real life.

undetterred

Dan: wrote: »

Hi Ad, how's things?

Must have run out of beans in the bunker.

Aberdeenangarse

AD9898 wrote: »

Live each day as if it were your last

I wish it was yours

nearlynew

For the vast majority of the (western) world population the "good times" are never coming back.

We have had the best years and are now on the cusp of major changes to our way of life on a par with the industrial revolution.

The good news is that a falling standard of living does not have to mean a lower quality of life.

Blacklight

nearlynew wrote: »

For the vast majority of the world population the "good times" are never coming back.

We have had the best years and are now on the cusp of major changes to our way of life on a par with the industrial revolution.

The good news is that a falling standard of living does not have to mean a lower quality of life.

I think for the vast majority of the UK, if they can still watch X Factor with a few beers and a curry on a Satuday, go on holiday once a year and keep on paying the mortgage they'll not notice.

Dan:_4

nearlynew wrote: »

For the vast majority of the world population the "good times" are never coming back.

We have had the best years and are now on the cusp of major changes to our way of life on a par with the industrial revolution.

The good news is that a falling standard of living does not have to mean a lower quality of life.

Times are tough, times will get tougher.

30 Years from now a loaf of bread will be around a tenner, a pint of beer will cost a score, and house prices will have quadrupled

100% Guaranteed.