Changing for the times ahead

I've just read an interesting account of how the current bailout packages and focus on
"getting people spending again" is not going to create the shifts that we need as we move up against our biophysical limits. Interestingly I see Chris Martenson has also just released a new report that discusses the need to think about how life might change in future as we move up against those same limits. To me, the way we do this as the pressure comes on will stem from the state of our communities at local level and the nature of our political and social system.

Dimitri Orlov confirms this in his account of what happened over the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1990. He also offers some analysis of how he thinks a similar collapse might be played out in the USA and in another article some ideas about best practice for social collapse, in which he points out that goverments might be better to focus on how to provide Food, shelter, transportation, and security on an emergency basis. It was interesting because it contrasts with the sense of success that one gets from reading about what happened in Cuba as a direct result of the Soviet collapse but with what seems to have been a slightly more 'together' set of communities. Orlov points out some very important aspects of the political set up in the Soviet Union and how that assisted or exacerbated recovery and the lives of people on the street. He notes also that money becomes quite irrelevant but social connections, access to needed resources are invaluable in a post collapse scenario.