c/Collapse

This is a crazy example of how a large portion of the general populous is being affected by inflation and further just how much everyone’s given up - why not get the car of your dreams if anyone will sell you it and you don’t care about your credit? I feel for people who had this happen to them. Sadly defaulting on these loans has led to the banks profiting greatly, and now they have thousands of new cars to sell. But when will they overflow? Reminds me of the housing crisis. If you watch the vid you’ll see some people keyed their cars as it got repo’d. Very similar to people pouring concrete down the drains of their homes that got repossessed in 2008.

This is collapse related because things are in rough shape already for large parts of the province of British Columbia, Canada. The drought that started last year in the north continues as we head into the hottest driest months. Ranchers are talking about having to sell their cattle as there isn't enough feed growing on the ranges so they'd have to start feeding them their winter feed. The are already so many fires that the military has been called out and firefighters have come from many other countries. They've also got more planes and fifty more helicopters than last week to help out. They mention they might not have enough hoses and pumps is things go sideways. Something I've never heard before. The smoke has been horrendous for a lot of folks up there.

The Southern Interior , where it gets hotter, is predicted to have more fires as the summer progresses.

I'm in the Southern Interior and have had four fires, thankfully quickly extinguished, within sight of home so far. Two were human caused and the other were lightning strikes. There's lots of other fires burning in the immediate area that are thankfully mostly not threatening any structures at this time. There were 24,000 lightning strikes in the province in a two day period recently , as an example, and thunderstorms forecast often. It's only a matter of time before the wind picks up and flares up all those fires and all those smouldering spots or we get a bunch of thunderstorms with very little rain.

The last line of the article is scary. They say that if the drought continues through the winter and spring next year will be worse!

Sir Fred Hoyle was an English Astronomer who formulated the theory of stellar nucleosynthesis. As I was reading his book, Ten Faces of the Universe (which I randomly picked up from my logic professor’s office), I was amazed by the accuracy of the last chapter. It mainly involves his conjectures on the future of humanity. Here is page 190, 202 and 203 which stuck with me since I finished reading the book about two weeks ago.

I recommend the Thesis on Philosophy of history. The Angel of history is chilling.

It is the most doom filled critical writing in the canon as well as the writing with the most messianic hope I have ever read by a soon to be dead man by his own hand.