Defining my Current Fears

Defining my Current Fear

Face Your Fear – Part 1

Last night I watched a film with my wife (Phase 7). It is certainly not the best film in the world, but it was a worthwhile watch. The thing about it was that it really got us talking about outcomes. I won’t ruin the film for any of you who want to watch it – but it is about survival and adjusting to the times we live in. And at the moment the world is going through some very strange times.

What really is happening to our world?

The news is full of reports about jobs, inflation, deflation, European sovereign debt and much, much more; but do we really understand what this could lead to? The problem I have it that I tend to take on board all this bad news, but I don’t do anything about it. It just sits in my life as a little niggle. Then I watch a film or read a book and it reminds me that I really am slightly scared of how its all going to turn out.

My resolution for this year is to do something about these niggles. I don’t want to become some major conspiracy theorist – but I want to sleep at night, even after watching a disaster film.

I don’t know if any of your have read this book: (The Crash Course: The Unsustainable Future Of Our Economy, Energy, And Environment). It is written by a fabulously intelligent man, I have read and watched a lot of his stuff. He doesn’t claim to have the answers to everything – but he does offer a huge amount of information about preparing for a different type of world.

As a parent I often wonder what sort of a world my kids will find and bring their children into – I know that I can’t predict this, but I am going to do the best I can to ensure that they are as prepared as they can be. Perhaps when I finish on the path of ‘facing my fears’ I will have better defines how I will prepare them?

So here are my fears so far:

Survival
If we suffer huge inflation how will I cope?
Looking after my family – how will I do that if I don’t have enough money?
Preparing my family and teaching them how to cope?

Wow – in black and white, they certainly look like some pretty big issues ….. They also look like things which many other people are probably worrying about (so perhaps someone will read this?)

If you are worried about any of the above check out this book – I think this guy is really good and I don’t feel that he is trying to convert me, it feel more like a guidance than a brainwash.

The Crash Course: The Unsustainable Future Of Our Economy, Energy, And Environment

The next twenty years will be completely unlike the last twenty years.

The world is in economic crisis, and there are no easy fixes to our predicament. Unsustainable trends in the economy, energy, and the environment have finally caught up with us and are converging on a very narrow window of time—the “Twenty-Teens.” The Crash Course presents our predicament and illuminates the path ahead, so you can face the coming disruptions and thrive–without fearing the future or retreating into denial. In this book you will find solid facts and grounded reasoning presented in a calm, positive, non-partisan manner.

Our money system places impossible demands upon a finite world. Exponentially rising levels of debt, based on assumptions of future economic growth to fund repayment, will shudder to a halt and then reverse. Unfortunately, our financial system does not operate in reverse. The consequences of massive deleveraging will be severe.

Oil is essential for economic growth. The reality of dwindling oil supplies is now internationally recognized, yet virtually no developed nations have a Plan B. The economic risks to individuals, companies, and countries are varied and enormous. Best-case, living standards will drop steadily worldwide. Worst-case, systemic financial crises will toss the world into jarring chaos.

This book is written for those who are motivated to learn about the root causes of our predicaments, protect themselves and their families, mitigate risks as much as possible, and control what effects they can. With challenge comes opportunity, and The Crash Course offers a positive vision for how to reshape our lives to be more balanced, resilient, and sustainable.

From the Author: Warning Signs for the Planet

Author Dr. Chris Martenson

Warning signs for our minerals and energy supply:
• Oil discoveries peaked in 1964
• New oil discoveries have been outpaced by oil consumption by nearly 4 to 1 each year
• Known deposits of several critical minerals will be completely exhausted within 20 years, assuming the energy is there to extract them. Others will peak all on their own soon thereafter, and even sooner if Peak Oil limits our ability to obtain them.
• New ore deposits are getting harder to find, more remote, deeper down, more dilute, and/or all of the above.

Warning signs for our food and water supply:
• World population will climb to 9.5 billion by 2050.
• Nearly all high-quality arable land is already under production.
• Food yields are heavily dependent on fertilizers, which are either energy intensive to make or are being depleted and will someday peak.
• Soils are being mined by the practice of removing essential nutrients without replacing them.

Warning signs for our environment:
• 40% decline in oceanic phytoplankton since 1950
• Birds, bees, and bats in serious population decline over the past few years
• Fisheries collapsing all over the globe
• Mercury levels in marine mammals so high that the EPA would treat their carcasses as toxic waste
• Sterilized soils and advancing deserts
• Species extinction rates that rival anything in geologic records