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The Greatest Depression
September 5, 2005
Hurricane Katrina is the latest blow to be dealt to our great nation. Over the last five years it seems our country has been hitting harder and harder times. From 9/11 to Hurricane Ivan, the Iraq War, and now Katrina, it is beginning to feel like there is no end in site.
More importantly I fear that this latest disaster has demonstrated just how weak and irresponsive the United States is. We were once a great country and to a certain degree we still are. But we need to wake up and smell reality. Our country is now sitting on the brink of heading toward very dark times.
I am not trying to be a doom-sayer here; for hundreds and thousands of years people have predicted the end of one civilization or another. Clearly many people have been wrong about when the “End Times” or Appocolypse will occur.
What I am merely saying is that there are some pretty self evident common sense things going on right now which should indicate to everyone: “Houston, we have a problem!”
I am not saying it will happen tomorrow, next year, or even a decade from now. But sooner or later we WILL run out of oil; not just the United States, but the world. One of the biggest mistakes we are making right now as a nation is NOT focusing enough of our resources on developing viable energy alternatives to oil. This lack of planning and consideration for our future generations will haunt us twenty or thirty years from now if we do not start trying to do something about it now.
We all know civilizations do not last forever. They rise and fall like the ebb and flow of the tides. We are at a unique point in History where perhaps, just maybe, we can decide our own fate. Have we advanced enough as human beings to prevent the inevitable from happening? That inevitable being the end of our civilization?
It is inevitable or so history teaches us. What civilization has lasted the test of time? What makes us so arrogant to think that we will stand the test of time?
I will say this; we do have hope. We are living in an age of unprecedented knowledge, technology, and information. If any civilization can survive the test of time it should be ours.
But in order for us to be successful, people will need to take action at every level. Our politicians will have to start caring more about what is best for The People rather than their campaign contributors. Oil companies will have to forgo greed and profit from oil in order to advance a new form of energy. And the everyday consumer will have to drive the change by demanding products that are environmentally friendly and alternatives to oil.
In order for us to survive as a nation it will take a top to bottom approach, which requires getting everyone in this country on the same page. This means that regardless of race, class, wealth, health, mental capacity, position, political affiliation, or beliefs, in order for us to survive as Americans in these United States we will have to start working together toward the common goal of survival as a nation.
If we want to survive as a Nation then we must learn to work together. If we don’t we will perish in the ravages of time as all great civilizations have. And in the process our children and grandchildren will experience the Greatest Depression ever unleashed upon human kind.
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