The way that things are going & the changes that are coming, I feel the next generation is going to have it tough. It is looking more & more that in the future there won’t be welfare or free healthcare. With the huge gap between rich and poor continuing to grow, I feel in the future the majority of people are going to need to learn how to survive without money.
That’s why it is important everyone who is able should start learning now about producing food, how to build shelters, and even learn how to create homemade electric generators that run on renewable energy, independant of the central grid.
Communities will have to learn to get along and stick together if they are to survive. Find places to grow food: in gardens, on rooftops and balconies, indoors under flourescent lights, (make rooms in your house into places to grow crops.) in plantpots and troughs, on abandoned unused land.
People may even have to do this in secret one day, especially if companies like Monsanto become powerful & have a monopoly on the world’s food supply. In that scenario it’s not hard to envision a time when growing your own food becomes illegal. (It sounds far fetched, but could happen, there are currently some parts of America where growing your own food is against the law.) Hopefully that extreme situation isn’t going to be happening anytime soon in Britain, but now is a good time for people to get ready and be prepared to survive on little or no money; and whatever crazyness the world may throw at us.
If everyone uses whatever space they can to grow food, be creative in how we manage our space. If we learn how to generate our electricity independantly, we can survive & live comfortably.
Small communities working together should pool their resources, share the food they produce and distribute it equally. Neighbours/streets could share a homemade decentralized energy grid, that works on renewable energy. Vehicles can be adapted to run on vegetable oil.
If in extreme cases, like what has happened in Detroit, they cut off our water supply, we may have to learn about digging wells, cleaning the water to make it safe to drink and bathe in, even learn how to do our own plumbing.
I know this sounds far fetched and hard to imagine, it is an extreme scenario; but the world population is getting bigger, our resources are finite and becoming less. The money of the world is unfairly distributed, so that those who have a lot, get more, and those who have little, get nothing. The 85 richest people in the world just now have the same amount of wealth as half the world’s population.
It is looking increasingly like the majority of us will be forced to live in poverty; either that or we can choose another path, one that involves becoming decentralized independant communities living outside the system and becoming self sufficient.
We need to find inner strength and resilience and learn how to survive on our own. No longer dependant on their economic system.
This extreme scenario may not happen for another 10 – 20 years; so now would be a good time for people to start learning these skills and begin preparing ourselves and our children for what looks like a challenging future ahead.
We are lucky that right now, there’s tonnes of resources available online, were we can learn about just about anything we want to; all the information we need is at our finger tips. If you don’t own a computer or smartphone, you can use the internet for free in the library or at a friend’s house. The best kind of education is one where we learn how to teach ourselves; and all this information online can be used to our advantage.
If you learn independance and self sufficiency, nobody will have to fear things like benefit sanctions anymore, how they’re going to pay their bills & make ends meet.
It will be hard work at first; but if people work together as small teams and share what they produce equally, if communities share their knowledge, inventions and discoveries with one another; it will be a lot less daunting than trying to do it alone.
It will give people back power and freedom to control their destinies; no longer trapped in what feels like a cruel inhumane corporate tyranny. It would be a peaceful revolution, something that empowers the people, no violence would be necessary, just determination to learn how to be self sufficient, which if done with the right heart, will hopefully create communities of peace and equality.
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