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Chris Martenson
Executive Summary
- Urgency is needed, as society’s alarm bells aren’t working
- The most important charts of all
- Recent learnings on resilience relocation
- When a culture becomes desperate, it reacts desperately. No one wins.
If you have not yet read Part 1: Getting Real About Green Energy, available free to all readers, please click here to read it first.
What seems to be true is that humanity is in the early innings of a great transition. Losing access to abundant energy will change more things that you or I can appreciate at this time.
The future is barreling towards us at a furious pace. And the pace of that change is accelerating.
It’s time to freak out a bit. To get serious about protecting ourselves. To make different decisions and reorganize our priorities.
If you understand energy and its relationship to the economy the way I do, you’d share my urgency to create community and develop a resilient homestead. My goal here is to nudge you towards action.
Here’s what has me so concerned right now. These charts clearly show the… (Enroll now to continue reading)
Reality Shock
PREVIEW by Chris MartensonExecutive Summary
- Urgency is needed, as society’s alarm bells aren’t working
- The most important charts of all
- Recent learnings on resilience relocation
- When a culture becomes desperate, it reacts desperately. No one wins.
If you have not yet read Part 1: Getting Real About Green Energy, available free to all readers, please click here to read it first.
What seems to be true is that humanity is in the early innings of a great transition. Losing access to abundant energy will change more things that you or I can appreciate at this time.
The future is barreling towards us at a furious pace. And the pace of that change is accelerating.
It’s time to freak out a bit. To get serious about protecting ourselves. To make different decisions and reorganize our priorities.
If you understand energy and its relationship to the economy the way I do, you’d share my urgency to create community and develop a resilient homestead. My goal here is to nudge you towards action.
Here’s what has me so concerned right now. These charts clearly show the… (Enroll now to continue reading)
by
Chris Martenson
Marjory Wildcraft, founder of The Grow Network and author of Grow Your Own Groceries, explains how we can contribute to the local food production movement by using our own windowsills, planters and backyards as a food production system.
Even those with no prior experience can swiftly learn how to grow and raise a meaningful portion of their dietary calories.
Marjory Wildcraft: Growing Your Own Groceries
by Chris MartensonMarjory Wildcraft, founder of The Grow Network and author of Grow Your Own Groceries, explains how we can contribute to the local food production movement by using our own windowsills, planters and backyards as a food production system.
Even those with no prior experience can swiftly learn how to grow and raise a meaningful portion of their dietary calories.
by
Chris Martenson
Executive Summary
- When relocation makes sense (and when it doesn’t)
- Developing the vision & plan for your relocation destination
- Creating community
- Which incentives will drive success
If you have not yet read Part 1: The Importance Of A Resilient Life, available free to all readers, please click here to read it first.
Two weeks ago, I publicly revealed my plans to create a resilient living community. One that will offer me and other like-minded folks a beautiful place to live and positive cash flows.
In good times, it can be used as a home, as a vacation destination, or simply a passive real estate investment. And if times get bad, it’s a fully-resilient retreat, ready to shelter you and your loved ones.
The response to my announcement overwhelmed me. It clearly touched a nerve with thousands of people looking for a solution like this, hundreds of which have contacted me. In a week, dozens who want to participate will be meeting at my home in northern Massachusetts.
Below, I’m sharing the process I’ve designed for this movement. The detailed vision. The requirements for the property we’re hunting for. The skills, attitudes and expertise I’m looking for when (very carefully) choosing who to accept into this community. The incentives for fostering the right group dynamics and discouraging the wrong ones. The financial realities.
Read on if you’d like to learn more about this specific resilient relocation project, or if you’d like to integrate its insights into one of your own.
Because if you wait to long to act, you’ll find that… (Enroll now to continue reading)
Resilient Relocation
PREVIEW by Chris MartensonExecutive Summary
- When relocation makes sense (and when it doesn’t)
- Developing the vision & plan for your relocation destination
- Creating community
- Which incentives will drive success
If you have not yet read Part 1: The Importance Of A Resilient Life, available free to all readers, please click here to read it first.
Two weeks ago, I publicly revealed my plans to create a resilient living community. One that will offer me and other like-minded folks a beautiful place to live and positive cash flows.
In good times, it can be used as a home, as a vacation destination, or simply a passive real estate investment. And if times get bad, it’s a fully-resilient retreat, ready to shelter you and your loved ones.
The response to my announcement overwhelmed me. It clearly touched a nerve with thousands of people looking for a solution like this, hundreds of which have contacted me. In a week, dozens who want to participate will be meeting at my home in northern Massachusetts.
Below, I’m sharing the process I’ve designed for this movement. The detailed vision. The requirements for the property we’re hunting for. The skills, attitudes and expertise I’m looking for when (very carefully) choosing who to accept into this community. The incentives for fostering the right group dynamics and discouraging the wrong ones. The financial realities.
Read on if you’d like to learn more about this specific resilient relocation project, or if you’d like to integrate its insights into one of your own.
Because if you wait to long to act, you’ll find that… (Enroll now to continue reading)
by
Chris Martenson
Executive Summary
- Why it’s far better to be a year early than a date late when preparing for crisis
- Why I’m issuing a rare Alert
- What’s causing me to release this Alert now
- My relocation criteria
If you have not yet read Part 1: It’s The Pace Of Change That Kills You, available free to all readers, please click here to read it first.
As we say often here at Peak Prosperity: When it comes to preparing for crisis, it’s far better to be a year early than a day late.
I’m perfectly willing to be early on timing, as long as I get the direction right.
For example, I invested heavily in gold and silver beginning in 2001. My first purchases of gold were at $300/oz. Silver at $4.53/oz.
I was early. Prices didn’t really start taking off until 2006.
The bulk of these purchases happened after the sale of my house in 2003 when I had ~$250,000 of gains I had to do something with. I rolled all of it into bullion.
I was early on selling my house, too. The housing market didn’t roll over until 2007.
Was I early on calling a housing bubble? Yep. Was I correct? Again, yes. Looking back does it matter that I was early to both the housing correction and precious metals rallies? Not at all.
Here again I can state with equal conviction that we each need to be prepared for massive changes coming. If that sounds vague it’s because they are going to impact virtually everything and every system we hold dear.
Political. Ecological. Financial. Cultural. Social. Our lives. People we know. Our communities. All of them. Every. Single. One.
Massive debts, insufficient resources, rising pollution, collapsing food webs, and a near incomplete ability to have a proper national or global dialog about any of these things. That’s what is setting the trajectory.
Now, I very rarely send out Alerts. An Alert is triggered if and only if I come across information that causes me to personally take action.
Which I why I’m now issuing an Alert that after nearly 20 years of living in the same geography, I’m relocating. Recent events have accelerated to the point that I’m no longer comfortable in my current location.
My top priorities: more land, a more robust local community that shares my passion for resilience, and state government that has greater respect for the individual and personal liberty.
Specifically, I’m placing the greatest value on… (Enroll now to continue reading)
ALERT: Time To Relocate
PREVIEW by Chris MartensonExecutive Summary
- Why it’s far better to be a year early than a date late when preparing for crisis
- Why I’m issuing a rare Alert
- What’s causing me to release this Alert now
- My relocation criteria
If you have not yet read Part 1: It’s The Pace Of Change That Kills You, available free to all readers, please click here to read it first.
As we say often here at Peak Prosperity: When it comes to preparing for crisis, it’s far better to be a year early than a day late.
I’m perfectly willing to be early on timing, as long as I get the direction right.
For example, I invested heavily in gold and silver beginning in 2001. My first purchases of gold were at $300/oz. Silver at $4.53/oz.
I was early. Prices didn’t really start taking off until 2006.
The bulk of these purchases happened after the sale of my house in 2003 when I had ~$250,000 of gains I had to do something with. I rolled all of it into bullion.
I was early on selling my house, too. The housing market didn’t roll over until 2007.
Was I early on calling a housing bubble? Yep. Was I correct? Again, yes. Looking back does it matter that I was early to both the housing correction and precious metals rallies? Not at all.
Here again I can state with equal conviction that we each need to be prepared for massive changes coming. If that sounds vague it’s because they are going to impact virtually everything and every system we hold dear.
Political. Ecological. Financial. Cultural. Social. Our lives. People we know. Our communities. All of them. Every. Single. One.
Massive debts, insufficient resources, rising pollution, collapsing food webs, and a near incomplete ability to have a proper national or global dialog about any of these things. That’s what is setting the trajectory.
Now, I very rarely send out Alerts. An Alert is triggered if and only if I come across information that causes me to personally take action.
Which I why I’m now issuing an Alert that after nearly 20 years of living in the same geography, I’m relocating. Recent events have accelerated to the point that I’m no longer comfortable in my current location.
My top priorities: more land, a more robust local community that shares my passion for resilience, and state government that has greater respect for the individual and personal liberty.
Specifically, I’m placing the greatest value on… (Enroll now to continue reading)
by
Chris Martenson
Executive Summary
- Clarify the specific outcomes you think are most important to prepare for
- Models of regeneration (vs consumption/extraction)
- High return-on-investment steps everyone should take
- Make of yourself a model to inspire others
If you have not yet read Part 1: Save The World By First Saving Yourself, available free to all readers, please click here to read it first.
I worry that almost nobody is ready for what’s coming.
Not financially, not psychologically or emotionally. And not with respect to their current lifestyles.
My decade-plus tracking the data leads me to conclude that:
- Food insecurity will be part of my future.
- Energy abundance will diminish over time
- The financial system has enormous losses baked right in and they cannot be avoided
- Our local city/town or communities will feel the impacts of the loss of purchasing power coursing through their veins. This ‘simplification’ will be very destructive to those unready or unable to adapt.
- Either humans voluntarily stop putting too much carbon into the atmosphere or nature will force that outcome under far less favorable terms.
- Travel will become quite limited and perhaps become an unaffordable luxury within the next couple of decades.
Do you share these?
If so, I don’t want to panic you. Quite the opposite. I want you to realize that while these are potential eventualities you can’t control, you can do plenty about how they’ll impact you.
These are the smart responses virtually anyone can take that will offer you tremendous advantage against…. (Enroll now to continue reading)
Becoming Tomorrow’s Hero
PREVIEW by Chris MartensonExecutive Summary
- Clarify the specific outcomes you think are most important to prepare for
- Models of regeneration (vs consumption/extraction)
- High return-on-investment steps everyone should take
- Make of yourself a model to inspire others
If you have not yet read Part 1: Save The World By First Saving Yourself, available free to all readers, please click here to read it first.
I worry that almost nobody is ready for what’s coming.
Not financially, not psychologically or emotionally. And not with respect to their current lifestyles.
My decade-plus tracking the data leads me to conclude that:
- Food insecurity will be part of my future.
- Energy abundance will diminish over time
- The financial system has enormous losses baked right in and they cannot be avoided
- Our local city/town or communities will feel the impacts of the loss of purchasing power coursing through their veins. This ‘simplification’ will be very destructive to those unready or unable to adapt.
- Either humans voluntarily stop putting too much carbon into the atmosphere or nature will force that outcome under far less favorable terms.
- Travel will become quite limited and perhaps become an unaffordable luxury within the next couple of decades.
Do you share these?
If so, I don’t want to panic you. Quite the opposite. I want you to realize that while these are potential eventualities you can’t control, you can do plenty about how they’ll impact you.
These are the smart responses virtually anyone can take that will offer you tremendous advantage against…. (Enroll now to continue reading)
by
Chris Martenson
Executive Summary
- Our complex economy is poised for a forced, painful simplification
- The urgency to prepare for this inevitable Tipping Point
- The actions I’m taking right now in my own life to prepare for this
If you have not yet read Part 1: Overdosing On Crazy Pills, available free to all readers, please click here to read it first.
In the coming years and decades there will be hell to pay for society failing to properly assess the risks and re-align its priorities and activities accordingly.
Collectively, our human nature is sabotaging us. That’s my conclusion after exploring the biological underpinnings, as well as the limitations and realities, of our genetic programming.
Since humans are wired for optimism, and strongly discount the future for the present, then short-term decision making is what we’ll get.
Unfortunately, we need long-term decision making. But because that’s currently ‘out of stock’ in today’s society, you need to do what you can at your own personal level.
As I am fond of saying, when it comes to decision-making, I have great faith in individuals but almost no faith in groups.
People, I trust. Groups, not so much.
The larger the group involved, the more suspect it becomes. I’ll bet the founders of Google had the best of ‘non-evil’ intentions when they began. But now the behemoth is busy spying for the government, helping to weaken and overthrow various foreign governments that are unfriendly to western business interests, and helping to rig domestic elections.
Two guys doing pretty good. Big giant powerful company becomes evil. Stop me if you’ve heard that one before…
So the following steps — which I’m taking myself — are critical to… (Enroll to keep reading)
The Antidote To This Insanity
PREVIEW by Chris MartensonExecutive Summary
- Our complex economy is poised for a forced, painful simplification
- The urgency to prepare for this inevitable Tipping Point
- The actions I’m taking right now in my own life to prepare for this
If you have not yet read Part 1: Overdosing On Crazy Pills, available free to all readers, please click here to read it first.
In the coming years and decades there will be hell to pay for society failing to properly assess the risks and re-align its priorities and activities accordingly.
Collectively, our human nature is sabotaging us. That’s my conclusion after exploring the biological underpinnings, as well as the limitations and realities, of our genetic programming.
Since humans are wired for optimism, and strongly discount the future for the present, then short-term decision making is what we’ll get.
Unfortunately, we need long-term decision making. But because that’s currently ‘out of stock’ in today’s society, you need to do what you can at your own personal level.
As I am fond of saying, when it comes to decision-making, I have great faith in individuals but almost no faith in groups.
People, I trust. Groups, not so much.
The larger the group involved, the more suspect it becomes. I’ll bet the founders of Google had the best of ‘non-evil’ intentions when they began. But now the behemoth is busy spying for the government, helping to weaken and overthrow various foreign governments that are unfriendly to western business interests, and helping to rig domestic elections.
Two guys doing pretty good. Big giant powerful company becomes evil. Stop me if you’ve heard that one before…
So the following steps — which I’m taking myself — are critical to… (Enroll to keep reading)
by
Chris Martenson
Executive Summary
- Changing your fate requires action today
- Here’s the action/opportunity I’m most focused on today in my own life
- How to step into an “elder” role, if you have the courage
- How to create a world worth inheriting
If you have not yet read Part 1: The Path From Survival To Significance, available free to all readers, please click here to read it first.
Our mission at Peak Prosperity is to “Create a world worth inheriting”. Every single day we feel like we’re doing everything we can to move towards this goal. But some days, it feels like our efforts may not be nearly enough to get the job done.
But while our own actions may be insufficient, they are necessary. And paired with the steps you take, and those of the hundreds of thousands of other PeakProsperity.com readers, our odds for success exponentially improve.
I’d like to slip out of ‘convincing mode’ for this piece. Because so many people still seem to be unaware of our many predicaments, I often find myself leaning towards lining up all the evidence, in the hope that I can open a few more eyes.
But not today. We all know the score. We’re collectively on a terribly unsustainable course. The data is overwhelming at this point.
All of this then, leads to the idea that to create a world worth inheriting we have to first admit that our society is not on track to do that.
It’s up to us to plan accordingly, based on what our own eyes, ears and hearts are telling us is true.
Mine tell me that there’s a better way, one that does not involve squabbling like primitive monkeys over key resources.
And then we must be willing to change on a very deep level. Both internally so we can be proper elders and compatriots to those around us, and externally as we move into a life of consuming less.
I look around and I see people using their big brains to work with nature, create abundance, and believe in ourselves as creative forces for good.
The opportunities that are capturing my personal attention most and are inspiring me into new action in my own life are…
Creating A World Worth Inheriting
PREVIEW by Chris MartensonExecutive Summary
- Changing your fate requires action today
- Here’s the action/opportunity I’m most focused on today in my own life
- How to step into an “elder” role, if you have the courage
- How to create a world worth inheriting
If you have not yet read Part 1: The Path From Survival To Significance, available free to all readers, please click here to read it first.
Our mission at Peak Prosperity is to “Create a world worth inheriting”. Every single day we feel like we’re doing everything we can to move towards this goal. But some days, it feels like our efforts may not be nearly enough to get the job done.
But while our own actions may be insufficient, they are necessary. And paired with the steps you take, and those of the hundreds of thousands of other PeakProsperity.com readers, our odds for success exponentially improve.
I’d like to slip out of ‘convincing mode’ for this piece. Because so many people still seem to be unaware of our many predicaments, I often find myself leaning towards lining up all the evidence, in the hope that I can open a few more eyes.
But not today. We all know the score. We’re collectively on a terribly unsustainable course. The data is overwhelming at this point.
All of this then, leads to the idea that to create a world worth inheriting we have to first admit that our society is not on track to do that.
It’s up to us to plan accordingly, based on what our own eyes, ears and hearts are telling us is true.
Mine tell me that there’s a better way, one that does not involve squabbling like primitive monkeys over key resources.
And then we must be willing to change on a very deep level. Both internally so we can be proper elders and compatriots to those around us, and externally as we move into a life of consuming less.
I look around and I see people using their big brains to work with nature, create abundance, and believe in ourselves as creative forces for good.
The opportunities that are capturing my personal attention most and are inspiring me into new action in my own life are…
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