Oil companies say price rises resulting from the American war with Iran could force the government to protect supplies for hospitals and essential services
After COVID I’m not willing to trust that my current lifestyle is secure. It’s built on too many complex supply chains under too much chaotic stress. All the crises since COVID have only compounded those stressors. My car commute had to be the first thing to go because they didn’t pay me enough to afford the repairs I couldn’t get parts for in 2020. If I crashed on that commute they’d fire me and I wouldn’t have a replacement for my most expensive possession. That’s too much vulnerability when the only certainty is that things will get worse. I can’t get 550km out of a battery charge like I can with my car, but I can at least get to a neighbouring city more comfortably than walking and quicker than public transit. The degrowth lifestyle it forced me into is much more collapse-proof since everyone will eventually get forced into something resembling it.
After COVID I’m not willing to trust that my current lifestyle is secure. It’s built on too many complex supply chains under too much chaotic stress. All the crises since COVID have only compounded those stressors. My car commute had to be the first thing to go because they didn’t pay me enough to afford the repairs I couldn’t get parts for in 2020. If I crashed on that commute they’d fire me and I wouldn’t have a replacement for my most expensive possession. That’s too much vulnerability when the only certainty is that things will get worse. I can’t get 550km out of a battery charge like I can with my car, but I can at least get to a neighbouring city more comfortably than walking and quicker than public transit. The degrowth lifestyle it forced me into is much more collapse-proof since everyone will eventually get forced into something resembling it.