Our Way of Life Is Coming To An End

 Beacon Heights Overlook, North Carolina

The original purpose of this blog was to define and highlight problems and predicaments and point out how they differ from one another and how our behavior of technology use intersects with both to produce the predicament of ecological overshoot and what the outcomes for that are. 

I continue to maintain writing articles for the blog at this point in time within that framework, but can foresee several different possibilities which may prevent me from writing in the near future. I have hinted at this previously, but haven't yet come right out and said it. As are many other people my age, I am experiencing medical issues. These might be a precursor to conditions which might lead to further issues. 

The ongoing situation in the Middle East is evolving into a very serious scenario which might have extreme consequences. While I cannot predict the future any better than anyone else can, there remain certain outcomes which would preclude the continuation of this blog.

Anyone living today now realizes (or hopefully soon will) that he or she is at risk of harm by extreme weather events such as floods, hurricanes, tornadoes, derechos, wildfires; or by the implications and knock-on effects of extreme weather events such as flooding, landslides, mudslides, rockslides, fires, pollution loading, accidents and other disasters, and on and on.

New conditions are constantly emerging and because of the potential for a nuclear exchange, economic collapse, political collapse, etc., there is no accurate way to predict how the future may turn out and what kinds of outcomes might come my way. While there has always been the possibility of an early and unexpected demise (and this applies to all living humans), the possibility has never been higher than it is right now.

Most modern humans often presume that there will always "be a tomorrow"; it is an unspoken assumption that most people (except for the elderly) make. I'm no longer in my 20s and 30s, and so I don't assume that there will always be a tomorrow for me. When I travel in the mountains, doing so comes with some risks (listed above) that most people don't often consider. Some areas I frequent are remote and/or isolated which prevent me from having cellphone or internet access, making it possible that I might not be alerted to some sort of disaster as well. Over the last several years on two separate occasions, tornado warnings were issued while we were at campgrounds. While we were fine, I can see a scenario where that isn't the case.

One additional issue that doesn't involve me being incapacitated is the possibility that I might voluntarily decide to suspend writing here. There are now many other collapse writers who do an excellent job of writing about many of the same topics that I do. I have highlighted a few of them and some of them I actually routinely post about here and include their articles. There have been many times recently I have felt that my writing is no longer necessary. 

One commenter has mentioned several different things s/he would like to see. While I appreciate the feedback, this blog also has served as a way for me to share what I feel is important. This will continue to be the case; for those who want particular topics featured, please feel free to write your own material and then share it. I routinely still share many different scientific studies here, but if I thought that people wanted a repository of studies, then the files that I originally published would have sufficed and there would be no need for me to write any of my own thoughts attached to them. 

Another person shared their thoughts that I am very arrogant. Thank you for your perspective. If you don't care for my writing, then why do you read it? I assure you that while you may not like my style, many others actually do like it. Similarly, I include my humility in many of my articles, including above, where I demonstrate an articulate awareness of my own limitations. 

Now, it appears pretty obvious by now that the war situation in the Middle East is probably going to expand into a larger war. I could easily provide countless articles describing analysis in great detail about what has already happened and the lag effect currently causing many people to think that no pain will be felt as a result. But simpler videos describing what is happening can suffice here. Pain is definitely in the works, it will just take a bit more time to arrive. Many people have mistakenly bought into the various narratives being spun about the war, but make no mistake - it is about the petrodollar and the hegemony of US finance. 

There are countless articles describing how the lack of helium will suspend operations in Taiwan at microchip fabricating facilities, how the lack of helium will cause major troubles for MRI machines, and how the lack of helium might even scrap liquid fuel rocket launches. Countless articles also exist regarding naptha, natural gas, diesel, sulfur, phosphate, and plastics shortages which will render everything downstream which incorporate all of these subject to shortages and/or entirely unavailable. I have a friend who has said that he cannot order his prescription medicine (this is a major concern of mine moving forward) because the Amazon Pharmacy is out of stock. The reality is going to hit very hard. See selected articles here and here and here and here.

I have purposely left this article without many links; life is short - Live Now! If you enjoy my pictures, please feel free to check out the last two weeks at Port Kent and Raymond B. Winter State Park!