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I have been reading up on things like water, food and energy shortages and climate change. This all makes for some interesting reading I can tell you. It also gave me some insight into the highly intelligent stupidity that is going around.
First off, the climate will change. It's connected to the planet's cycle around the sun. It's going to get hotter and it's going to get colder. If it gets too hot I'll move south until I get to the sea. If it gets too cold, I'll just keep going north until someone label me climate refugee and gives me lots of free stuff.
It's the other shortages that kind of baffle me. It seems as if a lot of these shortages aren't connected to any real supply problem. If you look closely you will always find there is some lack in the system. That and a backward way of solving the problem.
The electricity supply may be the easiest example to use to explain what I mean.
In South Africa we are used to large scale loadshedding that has our power cut at least twice a day for two hours at a time. When things like that happens, you start paying attention.
Loadshedding happens when the supplier cannot supply fully in the demand I'm told. It happens world wide. Internationally the demand is outgrowing the supply. The solutions that are put forth interests me.
The go green card were played first yet strangely fossil feul power stations rarely get decommissioned. It does not matter how many wind or solar farms goes online, consumption still outgrows it.
As a solution à mass move to energy saving devices were put in motion. That would have been great except for the fact that energy savings just lead to more consumption. It seems to be a law of nature. If you study savings through cutbacks in different industries you will always find that eventually what was saved will be lost in growth the follows.
The only good reason to start using energy saving devices is to reduce you bill.
The next great idea is to connect the grids of more neighboring countries and areas together. The logic to this is that since the peak for East Europe and West Europe are not at the same time one can help out with the others peak energy needs. Sounds nice doesn't it. Neighbour's helping each other.
OK, so you are going to connect a couple of already overloaded grids by adding a couple of thousand miles that loses power because of distance. Then you have a bigger risk of breakdown.
That were answered by the creation of the smart grid. Awesome, so now you are going to connect a lot of electrical devices to an already overloaded grid to monitor and report a breakdown so a repairman can get out faster.
Then came the idea that small and efficient wind turbines can be put at private houses and fed in to the grind. This idea were harshly resisted until the realization that this could save the grid and justify it's existance hit.
That is what the whole circus is about. Saving the system and justifying it's continued existance.
We were taught for so long that our survival hinges on systems that were put in place to serve the masses that we actually believe it to be true. It does not matter weather it's for energy, food, water, medicine or anything else. We became dependant.
Now we work desperately at saving systems that isn't doing what it promise to.
There is a simple solution to stop all of the shortages that is pending. Divorce the failing systems. Start disconnecting from big systems that serves thousands and sometimes even millions of people.
You'll be surprised when you see what you can do for yourself to maintain your comfortable lifestyle. You may even find out it cost you less than what the system makes you pay.
Thank you for reading my post.
I appreciate your support.
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