If We Could Survive the Great Depression Then we can survive this too

I'm okay. But when I look around me at the world and especially what is happening to young people all over the planet it makes me worried for the future of life on Earth. I was in the hardware store recently buying my wife some Goop for repairing her porcelain and a Shop Vac (Vaccuum). I was cleaning out the attic above the garages of one of our homes that had once belonged to my wife's father. All sorts of things were there and dusty and I had to wear a mask not to have problems from the dust with my lungs.

When I talked to the owner of the hardware store he said to me, "We're going to survive all this aren't we?" And my response was, "If we could survive the Great Depression then we will survive all this too." And I meant that.

But then I started to think more about what that really means. What happened then was 25% unemployment, people living in tent camps all over, people starving all over the world. In Germany it took a wheelbarrow of money to buy a loaf of bread because money had become worthless. Hitler sprang up from nowhere and promised, "A chicken in every pot and a VW in every garage." And he came through enough on this to keep himself in power until the Allies killed him in a bunker. (Or so we think). Maybe he made it to South America like a lot of ex-Nazi's did.

However, The Great Depression and World War II was a great "Thinning out" of mankind. It was sort of like everyone starved through the Great Depression and then World War II was sort of like a big meat grinder that ground everyone up in one kind of machinery or another. At least 50 to 100 million died in World War II and countless people starved to death in the Great Depression Worldwide.

So, saying we survived the Great Depression one must also say that "Many didn't make it worldwide" and people I knew in the 1950s after this when I was 2 to 12 often were still crazy with PTSD that then was called "BAttle Fatigue" or "Shell Shock" or something else like, "The Horrors of War" that most of them wouldn't talk about other than sounding kind of crazy to talk to for a little kid.

My father talked about carrying groceries out for people as a teenager to their cars as a box boy. He also talked about joining the Marines at age 17 so he could fly in planes for free with his older brother. He became a gunner on Weekends in a Hellcat bi-plane fighter  on weekends until he got out of the reserves 4 years later in 1937. So, by the time the war came around he was already about 26 and had been out of the military for already 4 years. So, when World War II started they were asked by the Government to Electrically wire Liberty Ships being built for the war effort in the Pacific in Seattle where they lived then.

So, from my perspective the Great Depression thinned out the whole human race a lot. Many did not survive it. Though the last 5 years have killed a whole less people, a lot of people worldwide feel "Hollowed out" by this experience health wise and financially. It is only really the middle to upper class who have come out of the last 5 years in very good shape.

I think a good way to look at it is that we were on a "Gravy Train" here in the U.S. since the 1950s until maybe 9-11. This ended slowly but surely our "Gravy Train" here in the U.S.

Now, the whole dynamics on Earth have changed to something else and if we all don't adapt to these changes we won't be around either. The whole world is being thinned out in a different way this time. This time it is global warming mostly thinning people out which likely will cause small wars all over caused by not enough resources of one kind or another. Big wars cannot happen because nuclear weapons once they are used much will end all life on Earth. Everyone knows this now. It is no big secret anymore.

So, only little non-nuclear wars can happen in order to  keep anyone or anything alive left on earth.

So, I think I would call these times, "The Great Thinning Out of Mankind" for about the next 300 years or so because of what is happening to oil, (the long term lack of it and higher and higher prices for it) has changed (for better or for worse) our "Gravy Train" to something else everyone is still trying to figure out worldwide.

So, right now what is happening on Earth is "Energy Conversion". What I mean by this is developed countries are "Desperately" trying to convert away from oil as much as possible so they aren't brought all to their knees by these changes. And undeveloped countries? Well, God help them is all I can say at this point.

The more people convert to alternative energy sources like Solar, Wind, Geothermal and Ocean Wave power the more likely those areas will continue to survive and to be okay. Those that don't change may not survive the next 300 years.

It is possible with even solar power to through small tubes convert any water to a purer form whenever the sun is out. In this way automatically people can have clean drinking water from almost any source. Another way is to use sheets of plastic where you can using the sun evaporate enough sea water to drink and to reclaim by sloping the sheets of plastic and gathering the condensations into a cup, bowl or barrel whenever the sun is out and it is hot enough to cause evaporation and condensation into a clean receptical.