This is your wake-up call to start building self sufficiency.
My prediction: We are 7-10 years away from massive societal change due to the End of Growth (See Richard Heinberg’s work here, among thousands of other economists, and ecologists). You know what is also about 7-10 years away? Fruit if you plant trees TODAY.
That means that this could be the single most important year of your life. Start building your self sufficiency now, so that you and your family are prepared for what is coming?
What is coming? I discuss that in this video.
Sources:
1) IESO Pathways to decarbonization – https://www.ieso.ca/-/media/Files/IESO/Document-Library/gas-phase-out/Pathways-to-Decarbonization.ashx
2) IEA – Net Zero by 2050 – https://www.iea.org/reports/net-zero-by-2050
3) IEA – Updated Roadmap to net zero – https://www.iea.org/reports/world-energy-outlook-2022/an-updated-roadmap-to-net-zero-emissions-by-2050
4) Arthur Berman interview on Peak Oil – https://www.resilience.org/stories/2023-01-18/arthur-berman-peak-oil-the-hedonic-adjustment/
5) US petroleum makeup – https://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/pet_cons_psup_dc_nus_mbbl_m.htm
6) Antonio Turiel – Antonio Turiel: “Deep Challenges: Oceans, Scarcity and Culture” | The Great Simplification #65 by Nate Hagen – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1fIkS4y798
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It’s one thing to know all of these things, it’s quite another to have someone give you the whole lay of the land rapid fire. Consider the fire lit and thank you for the nudge one needs to keep going. Maybe off topic, but I don’t think so. You are a parent and so am I. Beyond modelling this kind of lifestyle for our children, how do we prepare them for the realities of the next 10 years and beyond (without scaring the ever-loving shit out of them and crushing their dreams)?
Pethaps its time we all just move back to the tropics and stop trying to live where humans were never supposed to settle in the fitst place.😅
Great chat, I hope your message spreads…. I know I've been entirely ineffectual in doing so myself…. sigh… That's ok, in the end, I'm good with being the crazy lady who lives of grid.
Truth! I started my food forest 2 years ago. I'm planting as much as I can get my hands on. Change of life is coming.
🇨🇦 Hi Keith. I got my PDC in 2011. None of my family, friends or coworkers had any idea what I was talking about. Ha ha. So glad to see it becoming more main stream. I like the saying permaculture dispels despair. One very, very important thing is good health. I had everything set up and got a very serious cancer diagnosis. I’ve had complications for five years. I used to have a huge community veggie plot but had to give it up. So sad. I had it for 20 years. Someone benefited from all my hard work. I still have the small home yard. But it was set up as fruit tree guilds. So is now pretty shady to grow most vegetables. But I squeeze them in all over. So take care of your health. Running back and forth for surgeries and appointments is very tiring. This is the first spring I’m feeling a bit more active and can do things. But because it was permacultured things got messy but nothing died. No even me. Ha ha.
I think your advice is sound and I agree with all of it for the coming years, which will be a challenge. However, I don't think anyone "elected" to lock down – especially not the people of Canada. There is such a thing as social engineering and – the people who really are the beneficiaries of the current collapsing system are not the ordinary people of the so-called affluent North, but the small minority who own, control and manipulate the Earth's resources – and the narratives we all are fed.
Thank you for this, it's a very clear picture of where we are headed. We are like a bunch of lemmings in a school bus hurtling towards a cliff (mixed my metaphors a bit there), blithely looking out the window enjoying the ride. EVEN if your predictions are overly pessimistic and economic growth will continued relatively unabated for the foreseeable future, I really want to continue downsizing our lifestyle (which is pretty modest anyway) and I want my older kids to watch this video. because this is going to affect them. I am really bad at growing annuals (partly because of our very hot and dry summer climate), I don't think we could ever feed ourselves that way, and I am not sure our 1/4 acre of land is sufficient to sustain our family even if I could grow enough fruit and vegetables. But having settled for a fairly modest lifestyle I think we could weather the coming storms, even as we have so far weathered the huge price increases we have recently seen – when you mostly feed yourself with fruit and veg from the farmer's market and the minimum of industrially-produced products, the blow to your budget is not nearly as great. But your comments about the lack of expertise in renewable energy (e.g. nuclear) got me thinking – do you think that is a viable career path I could suggest to my kids, whether on the engineering side or somewhere else? I think they need to start thinking about the 21st-century economy and what it's going to hold for them, and I feel a lot of the traditional career paths are going to offer less opportunities – I can sense the impending change in my own industry (translation services) with the rise of AI tools…
I agree with a good deal of what you say. But I do not like the way the whole climate situation is politicised in order to control us. The biggest polluters are not penalised. There is manipulation of our weather by those with vested interests. What I cannot really understand is, if governments are so worried about our environment – and I agree we should definitely be looking after our environment way better than we do – why are we being actively discouraged in many countries from growing food? Why are people not being encouraged to grow food in community situations? Why are big businesses not penalised or taxed more than they currently are? Why is local production not encouraged more?
There should be incentives to grow food, have community growing projects and teach everyone, starting with kids, how to do this, save seeds, look at permaculture rather than traditional farming and gardening, community food sharing – something I hope to initiate.
I've been saying how important it is to grow food, encourage and support pollinating insects and other species rapidly disappearing for ages. Not just for the environment, as you say, but for quality of produce, soil, economic reasons and continuity of supply. Plus there will be fewer and fewer jobs available but people always need to eat and they always need people with practical skills. Any young people watching your videos should be encouraged to learn a lot more about growing, practical skills and shop in accordance with ethics and support of local businesses first and foremost.
if we are running out of oil and we rely on china for most of the solar panel and battery tech, we have way bigger problems than a recession. the US Dollar is on the verge of collapse and it will likely be replaced by the Chinese Yuan as the global reserve currency. we have created the monster that is china by making them the global manufacturing hub of the world that everyone is reliant on. within a few decades since we let them into the WTO and gave them favored trading status they have went from a $1T or so economy to almost $18T which isnt far behind the US. inflation will be the least of our worries when China is the sole superpower that is dictatorship oppressing us all with its social credit system, gulags, state media etc. we in the west were so short sighted and only cared about short term financial gain. we created a new Nazi Germany that is way bigger and they actually have the manpower and resources to conquer much of the world either with force or with debt traps and soft takeovers.
you're certainly right that anyone with land should be trying to make it a place that can grow enough food to feed you and your family, because within the next few decades the USD will be toilet paper. the world is finally starting to realize that the USD is a fiat based on nothing. i wish everyone cared about not polluting but they dont. china is the biggest polluter on earth and they are building over 100 coal power plants a year which is an insane amount. that is happening while the west is kneecapping itself by lowering fossil fuel production, shutting down coal plants and even nuclear plants. even if Europe and the north America shut down today with zero emissions other than our farts, it wouldnt change much because India, China and other places will just keep increasing their pollution to levels that equal and then surpass the amount we stopped producing. this game only works if all sides are playing and the enemy is not. so we are just kneecapping ourselves while china enjoys this cheap fuel source that they will use to grow strong and conquer the world.
China are also the ones plundering the oceans with fleets of fishing ships that kill anything they can with no regard for quotas or endangered species etc which has led to the extinction of several species and the destruction of massive areas of corral reef. we can keep demonizing ourselves for the small impact we have or we can focus on who are really causing the problems.
It is still doomy. But all true in my opinion. No government will have the power to change this. We, as a society, need to relax in the consumption and think a bit. Do we really need everything we have?
It’s sad. I’ve already realized it many years ago and the extreme weather and the changes we’ve had since Jan was/is extreme. I’m going back to in ground garden rows for cost savings, ease of irrigation and most needed to install hoops for various covers to get a harvest. There seems to be a huge amount of money spent on gardening these days. Our ancestors would flip if they seen the price tags.
We just had over a 50*F temp swing from 90*F to snow.
With all the electric I would hope nuclear is not he answer.
It doesn’t help when we sell/lease our land to other countries like what AZ is experiencing and they use all our water to grow alfalfa in the desert to take the hay back to their country to feed their beef and now our farmer’s wells are dry.
The permafrost is defrosting and that land is totally unusable and I feel a major reason why there is war right now.
I see saving seeds from your plants extremely important because crop failures happen and the seed may not be available. Government takes WAY TOO LONG to act and Always have the dart before the horse.
I’ve started my orchard and we have chickens after not having them for decades. Providing the weather doesn’t kill the plants we will have food. I need to find better land and more of it as we have inconsiderate neighbors with dirt bikes and a Very Slow to act local gvt.
I was coming to the end of the video and you were taking the words from my head. And the fact I’m expanding my garden and was just going to start trying to figure out how to do that. The chickens aren’t big enough to scratch it up just yet. My fairly new lawnmower has the transmission out—not happy as it only had about 135 hours of flat mowing on it. And hope like heck something is done about the noise makers in neighborhood. I can’t take it and wish I had our 80 acres back.
Better make sure you have Pew Pews to protect your food, or the hoards will take and destroy any food forest out of desperation and ignorance. Develope community of like-minded people and know your tribe. Times are a changing…
Ok so what i gather is i shouldn’t be worrying about living debt free. I should borrow money now, build my energy autonomous homestead up and if i need to pay back the loan, inflation will mean my stiff if worth more than the face value’of’the money i’m reimbursing.
Thanks
Is so rewarding to go to your garden and harvest from it,to eat. I started my food forest 12 yesterday ago and now is thriving. Thanks for the advice. I did it for better health and to eat organic food.
I don't know how much you earn, but I, my friends and my neighbours sure aren't at the top of this "global Ponzi scheme." Look to the people who made billions these past few years while small and medium sized businesses had to close; when food and oil prices skyrocket; when governments bail out banks with our tax dollars. They won't give up their private jets, steak dinners, huge homes and luxuries while we're forced to give up our middle class lifestyles due to a carbon tax and other measures that won't in fact "save the world." Yes, become self sufficient and grow a garden. Do it organically if you really want to help the environment, your community and your own health. But don't believe for a moment that you've got 7-10 years … or that you're at the top of this scheme.
Excellent informative video. We are in 3rd year, I’ve already converted 1 of the 10 acres of my property to grow a food forest and no dig garden. We have about 60 more trees from wiffletree and Treetime coming next week. I told my children that when I’ve finished converting the property to a food forest it will be of tremendous value.
You’re on the money. Well done. I started my food forest, again 4 years ago. A fire took the first one out. We also have raised beds, utility chickens that we breed for meat and eggs and utility cattle for meat and milk. We also have a pony that we can drive in cart and ride. I’m legally blind and physically limited and my husband has acquired brain injury and physical limitations. But we are fairly healthy and active due to the hobbie farm and our work as body work therapists and studies, him acupuncture and me naturopath. We have very little money but our life is amazing! All it takes is a dream and then action.
We know how to be very productive in agriculture without NPK fertilizers and the various synthetic biocides. We know how to produce liquid fuels given adequate sources of electricity, materials, a source of carbon and hydrogen plus a better chemist than I. We've long since hit the point where government regulations have impeded either laying the groundwork for swapping over to relying on that knowledge or implementing it outright. The next 20 years are going to look completely unlike the last. You do your food forest. I'll experiment with my perennial living mulches. Might be worth it to learn basic welding so that if the demand for people who can learn to weld boilers for nuclear plants needs to be increased, you have an option. Might also be worth it to learn to fix farm equipment or even make 18th century farm equipment. The next 20 years are also going to determine the course of technological progress for generations. Do we slide back, or do we progress? There will be hard choices to make.
Didn't you read agenda 2030 and what they really will? They just wanna destroy evering en locking us up in smartcity prisons. Setting up a destructive 5G system everywhere. solarenergy and other shit is helping to destroy