The Importance of Cooperation Soon to Be Essential

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But the reality is actually quite different. Cooperation is shared uponmutual need. Another important point - we do not own the Earth, the Earthowns us. When we die - we take nothing with us, why should we care whatwe own while we live? This is a great lie taught to us from birth. Controland own as much as you can, a “get yours while you can” despite it’sactual costs or the damage such thinking creates. - Survival Acres

If you are like me, you are an average Joe Citizen, trying to make ends meet inan increasingly competitive and expensive world. As resource scarcity increasesthe costs of goods and services, everything from food to fuel, water to widgets,the day-to-day reality of finding ways to pay for the necessities of life becomesincreasingly harder and harder to afford.The day is soon coming when basic needs such as food, clothing, shelter, land,electricity, water and other essentials will be unaffordable for many of us. For some, this is already happening, evidenced by the massive homeless problemwe have in America.Americans are a very independent minded people. Each of us wants our own“space”, our own slice of heaven on earth. We’re very accustomed to the ideathat the kids will move out, take up lives of their own and lives independently aswe do. Yet this idea is based upon several assumptions:a) unlimited growth and consumption; enough for everybody now and futuregenerations.b) unlimited resources demands and production; plenty to go around.c) economic and educational opportunity for anyone who wants it.The future poses serious doubts about these assumptions for reasons coveredon this blog. A severe economic crash is presently in the offering, impacting all of the world’s citizens. Resource collapse is already evident around the globe onmany fronts. Economic growth cannot continue or be maintained for much longer.A “contraction”, also known as re-localization will occur out of necessity. This willalso prevent advanced education opportunities because of time, distance,affordability and opportunity.

Collapse, “contraction”, or economic downturn due to climate change, economicfailure or any other reason will affect everyone relatively equally. However, thereality is we are not all equal. Those that will suffer the most and experience thegreatest impacts will be those that have limited means to absorb theextraordinary high costs of increased living expenses.I say “extraordinary” because there are several case histories where limitedcollapse caused inflationary expenses over 8000%. A global collapse will causethis and much, much more.What this means is the cost of goods, housing, food, fuel, land, electricity, water and necessary items for living will become extremely expensive. For manypeople, the vast majority - such items will be truly unaffordable.A massive downsizing of assets will occur as people liquidate assets at firesaleprices to afford just the basic essentials of food, water and housing. Bankruptcieswill be epidemic as people simply walk away from their unaffordable mortgages.A gigantic glut of homes will be standing virtually empty as creditors tosshomeowners out on the street. This too is already now happening, with hugeinventories of unsold properties on the market and bankruptcies rising.This will worsen greatly as the collapse deepens. Our approach to thisforthcoming reality is critical - how will we deal with this? How will we evensurvive?We are going to be forced to cooperate together. We will have no choice. Our independent lifestyles of living will no longer be affordable. We are going to needeach other for financial and physical assistance. We will need to share the costsof food, land, housing and water and labor.Most likely, families will contract and once again, support grandkids andgrandparents, even aunts and uncles on the same land base, or even nearby.Family cooperation is the most likely, but in many cases this either will beinsufficient or impossible due to extenuating circumstances. But cooperation withothers for most people will now become essential. It’s doubtful that anyoneexcept the rich will “stand alone” and even they won’t in reality - they’ll just paytheir minons to do their bidding for them (just like they do now).It will be important to forge relationships very soon with other people for thecoming contraction. Those that don’t are already experiencing the struggles of going it alone. What is presently unaffordable to one family can still be achievedwith two or more.I’ve already experienced this myself by the way and I’m aware of othersexperiencing this too. The need to have ‘livable land’ where some food can be

grown, that provides safety, security and shelter, and to be debt free andunencumbered by high expenses all alone.Those that try to go it alone will experience the ever-increasing costs bythemselves and lack the financial and physical support that will soon benecessary in order to survive. They will succumb sooner, rather then later,compared to those that join forces.It must be recognized that at some point, it will simply become too expensive tobe alone, unless you already wealthy and rich enough that it won’t matter. Butthen again, if you’re one of those people, you probably don’t read this blog.The need to have both financial and physical assistance will become increasinglyacute because the difficulty in simply staying alive and being able to afford to doso will rise with each passing month.Those that join forces or families together will be able to take advantage of shared costs for land, housing, water and gardening, and such things asnecessary development, protection, defense, transportation and work load.Ideally, entire communities (towns) would do this, but I see this as unlikely,because of the social stratification that exists in every town and the entrenchedideas of “control”. It’s much more likely that this stratification will remain much asit is today and the ‘classes’ will band together out of necessity, especially thelower classes. The richer will continue to be able to afford most things more or less indefinitely, even hiring ‘protectors’ and laborers to do their bidding for them.It is the lower classes, the poorer people who will be impoverished the most (andwho often carry the higher personal debt ratios now). These will be the ones willneed to start considering how they are simply going to afford the high cost of living. Of course, I’m referring to the middle class too, which is largely in debt toit’s eyeballs too. They will succumb very soon to the high costs of living and willsoon join the lower class. Some will endure and manage, many won’t.Living standards will decline dramatically in many ways. Extraneous expenseswill need to be curtailed. No booze, cigarettes or videos. No entertainment andwasted transportation. The need to cut expenses and concentrate on thenecessities of life will be paramount.Only a couple of days ago, the price of powdered milk jumped over 300%overnight. It’s not hard to project what this means for the future. There are manyreasons why food will become unaffordable for millions of people. But it’s not justfood, it will be other essentials like transportation, even employment requiringlong distance transportation, electricity and even water. Economic andenvironmental collapse will severely impact all of these things. Toss in peak oil

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