Will you be gardening 10 years from now?

I see the biggest problem with people is specialization. People become dependent on each other. Team sports requires a leader and each member of that team are specialist for success. People need to become self reliant for a better life. When a specialist fails, the team fails. If more self reliant people are around survival will be greater.

Is "squits" some down-under sexually transmitted disease... just askin'.

and being usenet most of the people who pass on we don't really even know about.

i'm hoping when it is my time that there will be a big worm feast in some hole in the ground someplace with a lilac planted on top (i'm severely allergic). let the buggers have their last laugh tickling my funny bone. :) perhaps i'll sneeze them out of the ground with a good fart or two. the old windbag revenge...

songbird

Yep.

Don't agree. More of a personality thing. Religion certainly plays no part in my case. Remember the Sunshine Makers:

Snip of rest.

Billy, have you seen the movie, "Home" from the Home Project.

You might like it, if you can stay awake. ( I had to watch it twice, fell asleep the first time.)

Why worry about the future? There are NO guarantees in life when it comes to anything! Live one day at a time and be happy. The future will take care of itself just as it has since time began.

No, I haven't seen it, yet. I just looked at the trailer and the photography is magnificent. Thanks.

I presume that most people would rather stick their heads in the sand rather than know what's going on. That may be a reasonable thing to do since there doesn't seem to be much of anything that we can do about the destruction of habitat on our planet that we, and other species, require to survive. It has been calculated that to continue consuming natural resources, sustainably, at our present rate, we would need one and a half Earths. In a reasonable world, pissed-off, irate citizens would be in the streets with pitchfork and torches, insisting on our world back, but Americans aren't Egyptians. By the time we are, it may be too late.

World wide water and food shortages by 2020 - 30 (The federal government says that thirty-six states face water shortages in the next five years.), 12 billion people by 2065, and our 400 Mubaraks salt away billions of dollars against the coming hard times. Billionaires can't be too careful in protecting themselves. They need our money. It is the billionaires who own the corporations that buy the politicians, who need a billion dollars to run for president. ($1,000,000,000)

Taxes Citizen$ ---> Government ---> Corporations ---> Top 1%

I am happy as can be since my retirement... I am enjoying this life at this moment... Could not be better... Well I could use great looking chick half my age :)

Fear may jog people out of their apathy and get things moving, but first they have to know that a problem exists. In the US 90% of the news is controlled by 5 corporations, and because they are interlocked, they all give us pretty much the same pablum.

• 83 percent of all U.S. stocks are in the hands of 1 percent of the people.
• 66 percent of the income growth between 2001 and 2007 went to the top 1% of all Americans.
• The top 1 percent of U.S. households own nearly twice as much of America's corporate wealth as they did 15 years ago.
• Despite the financial crisis, the number of millionaires in the United States rose 16 percent to 7.8 million in 2009.
• As of 2007, the bottom 80 percent of American households held about

• The bottom 50 percent of income earners in the United States now collectively own less than 1 percent of the nation's wealth.

Giant Sucking Sound

Obviously, the top 1% of income earners think business is right on target, and we shouldn't change a thing, despite the 16,000 children who will die today from hunger and related illnesses.

If we do get out of line, Haliburton has built new detention centers for us, and it won't be the friendly face of the National Guard who arrests us, it will be the Xe (Black Water) mercenaries, as in New Orleans.

Foxholes can be dangerous to your atheism :O)

She'd kill you, and get all your stuff... you're better off with three year old Bessy.

Actually, most of the resource issues can be solved easily. One child per family and in a few centuries we'd be back at sustainable levels.

Right now that doesn't seem to be in the cards but there is a small chance we'll learn.

The habitat will come back even if we to wait for plate subduction.

Another REALLY excellent book: The World Without Us (Paperback) by Alan Weisman

I really do wish prostitution was legal in Michigan. However for companionship there is the dog which is probably better than a wife. Also I read somewhere I am now in the majority... Only 48 percent of Americans are married, an all time low.

Yeah. Sad ain't it? :-))

I wish I knew. I suspect that there are few people who actually spend time thinking and unless/until that happens, how on earth can any change take place? There has to be a scintilla of thought that there is in fact a problem before there is either recognition that something has to be done (and by individuals as much as governments).

People still don't even seem to have made the connection between excess speed and fuel consumption and yet they still complain that fuel costs are inordinate but don't seem capable of driving at less than 10 km/hour OVER the speed limit. If they can't grasp that simple concept, how is anything more complex going to percolate to the surface in those dim brains?

Yup. Too few brains around being used I suspect.

Or keep them frozen like a bunny in the headlights.

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Hope must be a realistic possibility I would have thought. Have you looked at people's houses and gardens lately? Not enough space to do anything useful except park the 2 cars, the boat/jet ski/caravan trailer and have a rim of decorative plants around the edge of the pool. A wasted and wastrel existence TMWOT. I wouldn't let such tossers near my veggie garden because they wouldn't know a plantain from a tomato.

LOL. I suspect you might be right about too much SF.

Opiate of the masses and all that jazz. There never was a more apt description of religious zeal IMHO.

No it's not. It means very loose bowels.