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annepan001 · Neepster Joined: 27 Jan 2009 Posts: 125 Location: Midmar

Has anyone come across the "Crash Course", by Chris Martenson? I heard about it on Monday at a Transition conference workshop, and it sounds like essential viewing.

This is how it's described:
"The Crash Course is the world's most concise video seminar on how our economy, energy systems, and environment interact, and how they will impact the future"

The people who've seen it recommend that you watch it in short bursts - in total it's about 3 hours of viewing, and 45 minutes seemed to be the optimum for absorbing the info. They also suggest you then discuss it with other people who've hopefully been watching it with you ... perhaps we could do that here if anyone else wants to understand what's going on with the economic situation, and what we should expect ... and most importantly, what we should do about it!!

It's available here: www.chrismartenson.com and is aimed mainly at an American audience (since Chris is American) but we had a video web conference with him on Monday for an hour or so, where he showed some data from the UK and compared it with the US data, and the patterns were identical, even if the numbers were a little different.

There's a 'crash course' questionnaire, which really struck home how incredibly un-resilient we are in our modern 'convenient' world, and made me start thinking even more about what I personally need to do to become a little more capable of functioning if the communications network / transport network etc fail for any reason.

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wildgarlic · Posted: Wed May 27, 2009 9:46 pm Post subject:

Thank you for that link Anne - I'll take a proper look tomorrow.
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Forget-me-Not · Neepster Joined: 25 Jan 2008 Posts: 1031 Location: Insch

Sonds, good, will try and start my first installment today.
Beth

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Ina · Posted: Thu May 28, 2009 7:08 am Post subject:

Grrr. I really think I need to get some speakers for this PC... Why can't they do these things in books? I always prefer reading to viewing anyway!

Sorry - rant over.

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Smooth Hound · Posted: Thu May 28, 2009 8:01 am Post subject:

i cant see a link

IainC · Posted: Thu May 28, 2009 8:35 am Post subject:

It's just not a hyperlink that's all

www.chrismartenson.com

wildgarlic · Posted: Thu May 28, 2009 8:44 am Post subject:

Ina · Posted: Thu May 28, 2009 9:36 am Post subject:

gussyboy · Posted: Thu May 28, 2009 11:19 am Post subject:

sounds excellent, thanks for passing onthe link

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