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Date Posted: 17:12:15 06/24/08 Tue
Author: Danny
Subject: Re: Hawaii article on theoildrum.com
In reply to: Bellingham Mike 's message, "Re: Hawaii article on theoildrum.com" on 21:53:41 06/23/08 Mon

This is one of the comments at the end of the article. He/she sounds like a future sea-steader to me.

"Gail, Thanks for the topical post. I was on the big island two months ago and just returned from 3 weeks in the Ionian islands of Greece. Here's a couple of thoughts I have:

There will be much less variety in food. Sustainable diets will look much more like traditional native diets than what Americans consider food. In Greece, the few staples of wheat, rice and olive oil, are supplemented with local produce. In Hawaii I suspect poi/breadfruit/ or other starches plus mac nut oil and fruits would also become core of a diet with rather limited variety.

Everyone would be growing part of their food supply. In rural Greece most everybody had a garden and possibly a few chickens or a goat.

Meat and fish would be rare. Greece has so over fished the Med that only small fish are caught anymore, despite a plethora of boats and fishermen. I don't think Hawaii could survive with fish being the only protein, despite their vastly superior fishing grounds. Diets would be mostly vegetarian with occasional animal protein.

The future of transport in an oil depleted world will be with sail power. I'm thinking that investing in a good size sailboat and the skills to transit the Pacific could pay off in the coming decades. However I also expect piracy to also rise :-( True trade by island hopping sailors could be a great lifestyle buying what is cheap locally and trading/bartering it at the next destination. You could live well without any currency hassles or government taxes.

Tough individuals with tightly connected small communities will evolve and survive in low-carbon sustainable ways. Their lifestyles may look hard and undesirable by most today, and I think there will be a mass exodus out of the islands as people try to hold onto their current diet, lifestyle and standard of living. Unfortunately I think things will also unravel back on the mainland but it will take longer and this time lag will drive a lot of migration."

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