decline to equilibrium

[mellowtigger]

I still say that there needs to be zero growth in the economy, zero growth in population, and zero growth in energy consumption. After, of course, a significant decline to get everything to a sustainable level. Decline is painful. Steep decline is even worse.

Here is a photograph of a neighborhood home (about 4 houses away) that I took last year around 2010 August 18.

And here's the photograph I took of the same house today.


I guess that desperation to work and do any job is insufficient to overcome these economic doldrums. Very sad.

Next month should show us if things are holding steady at "bad" or if they're about to get even worse.

"They're saying there are more jobs. I'm just wondering where those jobs are," Lambrecht said.

About 6.2 million Americans, 45.1 percent of all unemployed workers in this country, have been jobless for more than six months - a higher percentage than during the Great Depression.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/06/05/eveningnews/main20069136.shtml#ixzz1P0kKYn00

 

Rough times.  So far, I don't regret cutting expenses by living without an automobile for the summer.