It will all be fixed, eventually...

The first part of the tweet below shows the way forward:

People are rightly getting tired of the doom-mongers. If the gloomy prophets are right then what is the point of continuing to follow them? Those of working age who can make a new life abroad should do so – there are signs that this is happening already. The rest of us should hoard provisions and prepare defences.

Given the people who are now running the country and those who want to replace them it does seem that things are going to get worse before they get better. However, our gibbering in fear and anger merely generates income for the clickbaiters.

Instead we need to look past the crises to how the problems will be solved, for they will be, one way or another.

The hard way is simply for disaster to overtake us and for the survivors to rebuild.

If we want to avoid that we should continue to take an interest in national politics so that the destruction is less and the turnaround can start earlier.

To give us hope here are a couple of examples of how even a terrible situation can be rectified with intelligent analysis and systematic effort.

The first – and it’s worth watching – is about a farmer in Iowa who bought an additional forty acres of apparently dead ground. His neighbours loaded up with debt to buy more good land and new machines and were caught out when the President blocked grain exports to Russia and the Treasury boosted interest rates from nine to eighteen per cent. Our hero avoided the dangers of financialisation and spent several years improving the soil before growing a commercial crop. His business survived when thousands around him quit or were bankupted:

The second is about a 250-year plan to restore the great Caledonian forest from its tiny remnants – not just the trees but the whole ecosystem, from micoorganisms in the soil to wild animals and birds attracted back to the resources of the woods:

Like the farmer in the first video we need to start by working out what needs fixing and in what order. Here’s a bit of a list:

• Securing cheap, reliable and plentiful energy

• Balancing our national budget by rebuilding our industrial base and reforming the welfare state

• Increasing our ability to grow food locally

• Strengthening our national defences against foreign enemies

• Dealing with threats from internal enemies – terrorists and revolutionaries

• Suppressing crime and public disorder

• Preserving our freedoms and our ability to influence those who govern us

The energy question is fundamental and highlights the difficulty we have with governance. Any fool can see that we need extra fossil fuels to cover our transition to sustainable EROI-positive energy security (nuclear, hydro etc), yet the fool in charge cannot see it!

As to farming, the Government should abandon trying to destroy it with taxation and instead punt in money to make it more productive.

As an example of what can be done consider the work of the inventor James Dyson who has developed a farming system that grows strawberries all year round, generates heat from waste and avoids the use of poisonous agricultural chemicals: https://www.dyson.co.uk/discover/sustainability/farming/dyson-farming-on-bbc-rick-stein-food-stories

To conclude, time will resolve all our problems, brutally if we are stupid.

And there is so much time ahead! Perhaps five billion more years before the Sun consumes the last of its hydrogen fuel, though long before that it is expected to continue steadily burning hotter to the point where Earth cannot support life. Elon Musk’s plan to colonise Mars may keep us going.

As to sustainable energy the former American Archdruid imagines that in the fullness of time we shall have another carboniferous age to make new oil and gas – though we likely shall not be around to benefit from it: https://www.resilience.org/stories/2013-09-05/the-next-ten-billion-years/

It’s all a question of temporal perspective.

Source: http://theylaughedatnoah.blogspot.com/2026/04/it-will-all-be-fixed-eventually.html