where I remind you that I'm wacked

[ljgeoff]

Mike and I spent the drive home yesterday talking about Canada. He's decided that since I'm all worked up about it and all, he'll come along for the ride. I'm ... it's more than relieved. I don't know if I could pull it off without him. He is so skilled in so many things that I am not.

We spent about two hours talking about methane generators. I had no idea. After we got home, I found a description of a low-tech methane digester that's being used on farms in Tibet. Near-free cooking, heating and hot water from poo.

Lovelock is predicting a 90% die off of humanity this century. But most of his peers thinks he's bonkers, so hopefully they're right and he's wrong.

Sam, in the back seat, said that he has dual-track future plans. He made some interesting comments on religion, law and scavenging. Part of me thinks that talking to my son about the end of the world is child abuse. I can see that. Crazy, crazy, crazy. I told him that, asked him if he wanted me to just shut up about all of this. He was quiet for a moment and then said, "No. I think you better continue. Two tracks are good right now."

So, onward. Or is it outward? Anyways, I guess I'm still hopelessly wacked.

Comments

[hobbitbabe.livejournal.com]

I've read that kids whose parents are activists are less anxious about war or whatever they are activists against. And it kind of makes sense that kids whose parents think that whatever goes wrong with the world in the future is a problem that practical self-reliant people can cope with, will be less anxious about that, too.

I used to date a guy whose father was nearing retirement in the Canadian Forces. His family saw no contradiction between that and planning that the right thing to do in case of war was to head as far north as they could manage to have time to build a cabin before winter.

Can you write more about the Canada thing you allude to here?

[ljgeoff.livejournal.com]

I can, but it's hard 'cause it sounds so crazy. You can go look at stuff over at the_stronghold - I'm starting to pull things together there.

Hrm. The abstract is "Lisa thinks that things are going to get really ugly. So she's getting her RN or PA and heading to Canada's Northwest Territories, where she's going to work as a community nurse and start an off-the-grid truck farm. Perhaps she's neurotic, or worse, messianic. You might want to steer clear."

edit: I should add that I'm encouraging my children to acquire skills that will be of use - one son is getting a degree in water treatment, one looking at mechanical engineering and one at civil/structural engineering. We also have another med tech on tap and a chemist. That's the kernel, anyways.