{"id":3541,"date":"2006-06-29T09:41:00","date_gmt":"2006-06-29T09:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=3541"},"modified":"2006-06-29T09:41:00","modified_gmt":"2006-06-29T09:41:00","slug":"deciding-to-hope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=3541","title":{"rendered":"Deciding to hope"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is by way of a more personal follow-through to that last post. Ranter describes a situation<\/a> where he has genuine need of an SUV; Looney, in comments<\/a>, wonders “have you done anything” in this respect.<\/p>\n

Truth be told, my lifestyle has changed very little. My research hasn’t yet got to the stage of forcing major changes in behaviour (tho’ I think it will – I just do things very s – l – o – w – l – y). I’ve done some easy things (eg shifting to renewable electricity, beginning the process of planting vegetables) but the major stuff – if anything, I’m moving in the wrong direction. Two major ways in particular: we are sending our children to a private school, which will result in a major increase in our driving and petrol consumption; and child number three is now on the way. Why this decision, in a context where it is the population explosion driving all the problems? Various reasons.<\/p>\n

I might be wrong about Peak Oil.<\/p>\n

The crunch (for the West) probably won’t really hit for another ten years or so – and we have to do the best for our children today.<\/p>\n

I don’t believe the crash is in our power to prevent (tho’ God’s grace may); the crash will cause a huge reduction in population; the problems faced in that situation will be very different to those faced now. In particular I think the environment for my children will be much more hazardous, violent and fraught, and Psalm 127<\/a> is never far from my mind.<\/p>\n

In the end, though, there is a more or less explicit thread of nihilism in the die-off mind-set, and I cannot accept that. Whilst I can accept that Jerusalem will be destroyed, yet will the exiles return.<\/p>\n

And so I decide to hope.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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