In my last post I bemoaned the fact that the Nature Cat was rearing her head with the awesome earthquake and tsunami in Japan. Now we are watching the Nuclear Cat come into the fray. It has become the biggest cat-fight yet.
I am not sure our society will survive this cat-fight very well. In fact, I expect this month to be remembered as the worst month in the history of the earth, until an even worse month comes along.
Folks, things are very rapidly going from bad to worse, even faster than our governments and other agencies can respond. It is time to start preparing, but I don't yet understand how to prepare myself.
We have a nuclear catastrophe in Japan, and it may spread radiation at some level around the globe. While that contamination will be a problem, I believe the impact of the catastrophe will be felt in the economic arena even worse. As a result of the economic fallout, people will starve or die of thirst or be caught up in riots and revolutions.
The earthquake and tsunami were terrible, and some are estimating that nearly half a million may have perished in the natural disaster. But that was a localized occurance. Pity the poor who live there now, for they are without power and food and water. But they are a small portion of the population of Japan, a miniscule fraction of the population of the earth.
But our society has been built on more and more complexity and now runs on the principal that all parts must work, and work right. When major supply lines go down, other operations stop. The Chevy truck plant in Louisiana shut down because they cannot get a component from Japan because the electrical power supply there is not sufficient to keep industry going. That is just a start. More will come, and at some point society will realize they are screwed, and then they will panic. I can only guess how bad the results may be. They will not be nice.
I will try to focus in future posts on what to do now, how to survive, how to build an attitude that you can live with. For now, I want to curl up in my hole and sleep, maybe for 20 years or more.
sam
