{"id":46462,"date":"2019-05-28T18:57:35","date_gmt":"2019-05-28T23:57:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=46462"},"modified":"2019-05-28T18:57:41","modified_gmt":"2019-05-28T23:57:41","slug":"forget-money-what-will-matter-are-water-energy-soil-and-food-and-a-shared-national-purpose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=46462","title":{"rendered":"Forget “Money”: What Will Matter Are Water, Energy, Soil and Food–and a Shared National Purpose"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Forget “Money”: What Will Matter Are Water, Energy, Soil and Food–and a Shared National Purpose<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

If you want to identify tomorrow’s superpowers, overlay maps of fresh water, energy, grain\/cereal surpluses and arable land.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The status quo measures wealth with “money,” but “money” is not what’s valuable.<\/strong>\u00a0“Money” (in quotes because the global economy operates on intrinsically valueless fiat currencies being “money”) is wealth only if it can purchase what’s actually valuable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As the world slides into an era of scarcities, what will matter more than “money” are the essentials of survival:<\/strong>\u00a0fresh water, energy, soil and the output of those three, food. The ability to secure these resources will separate nations that fail and those that survive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a world of abundance, it’s assumed every essential resource can be bought on the open market.<\/strong>\u00a0Surpluses are placed on the market and anyone with “money” can buy the surplus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Things work differently in scarcity: “money” buys zip, zero, nada<\/strong>\u00a0because nobody with what’s scarce can afford to give it away for “money” which can no longer secure what’s scarce.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Parachute into a desert with gold, dollars, euros, yen and yuan, and since there’s nothing to buy, all your money is worthless.<\/strong>\u00a0Once you’re thirsting to death, you’d give all your money away for a liter of fresh water. But why would anyone who needs that liter for their on survival trade it for useless “money”?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Imagine the longevity of a regime which sold the nation’s food while its populace went hungry.<\/strong>\u00a0Not very long once the truth comes out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Having resources is only one component: consumption is the other half of the picture.<\/strong>\u00a0Having 4 million barrels a day of oil (MBPD) is nice if you’re only using 3 MBPD, but if you’re consuming 8 MBPD, you still need to import 4 MBPD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Water and soil are not tradable commodities.<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Forget “Money”: What Will Matter Are Water, Energy, Soil and Food–and a Shared National Purpose If you want to identify tomorrow’s superpowers, overlay maps of fresh water, energy, grain\/cereal surpluses and arable land. The status quo measures wealth with “money,” but “money” is not what’s valuable.\u00a0“Money” (in quotes because the global economy operates on intrinsically […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,5,7],"tags":[127,587,12569,1302,866],"class_list":["post-46462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-energy-2","category-geopolitics","category-survival-2","tag-charles-hugh-smith","tag-of-two-minds","tag-potable-water","tag-status-quo","tag-water"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46462"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46463,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46462\/revisions\/46463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}