earth home garden a place to beLocation: of Jim and Peg's Habitat Home, High In The Mountains Of Southern California
We are a car-free retired couple living in a small 950 sq ft mountain cabin on less than 1/4 acre at 6,750 ft elevation. The native plant habitat we established on the property now exceeds 100 species and we grow organic vegetables on a small portion of the yard. In our continuing efforts toward simple, sustainable and rewarding lives we bid our last car "Good Riddance" in January of 1997. Earth Home Garden represents what we love in life, our bountiful planet EARTH and all her natural diversity, our cozy little cabin HOME and the family it has sheltered for 29 years, and the GARDEN around us which nurtures so many native creatures and helps feed us as well. It's our PLACE TO BE...........
How utterly mad the civilIzation we've created looks now, at the end of the Petroleum Age, as we motor our gas-guzzlers around in climate-changing circles looking for more crap to consume at bargain prices from the crumbling icons of a corporate world model.
Governments print worthless paper as fast as they can in trying to bail out the failed institutions of an obsolete economic system. A self-destructive planet-killing system of mindless consumerism based on unlimited growth, while we descend into perpetual wars over the dwindling resources of a finite planet.
If we somehow succeed in resurrecting this comatose economy for a few more months, or years, gasoline will rocket back past $4 a gallon, and far beyond that, to bring the world to its knees once again.
Our entire culture is built upon cheap abundant energy, derived from oil, and the days of cheap abundant energy are over. Civilization has reached it's peak, the party is over!
This is very bad news for the 6.5 billion oil-dependents overpopulating the planet today, but our imminent decline might well be a breath of fresh air for any future life on Earth
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