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In reply to the discussion: Reading between the lines, the government is preparing for doomsday. [View all]napoleon_in_rags
(3,991 posts)YES, people should prep. The government has set up ready.gov to help people with short term prepping:
http://www.ready.gov/
YES, things are unstable. Its not a far out view, its the scientific view. Things are not sustainable. Our energy sources are not sustainable, climate change is leading to instability, and our economic situation, which requires perpetual growth to work, is in a world without perpetual growth.
Is all the surveillance part of it? I don't know, its always tempting to look for other reasons, but its certainly not proportionate with the amount of terrorist damage. I think its complex. For instance, a vast decrease in the price of information tech, of which all surveillance equipment is an example, has gone down, down, down. So part of the vast reason its there is for the first time in history it CAN be there, without breaking the bank.
But I fully agree with the idea we should all be involved in disaster preparedness, as the government asks, and also long term sustainability efforts. disaster preparedness (like stored food) for right after something bad happens, and long term sustainability (like community gardens, buying local to re-allocate resources to town) for long term issues, like economic problems.
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