The Sky is Falling

At least, that's what I managed to get from this article.

Convinced the planet's oil supply is dwindling and the world's economies are heading for a crash, some people around the country are moving onto homesteads, learning to live off their land, conserving fuel and, in some cases, stocking up on guns they expect to use to defend themselves and their supplies from desperate crowds of people who didn't prepare.

Zombies. Just think of them as zombies. It's easier that way.

"There's going to be things that happen when people can't get things that they need for themselves and their families," said Lynn-Marie, who believes cities could see a rise in violence as early as 2012.

Emphasis mine. Expect to see a lot more of this in the next few years, especially if Barack Kajagoogoo Obama doesn't get elected.

Some believe the federal government will respond to the loss of energy security with a clampdown on personal freedoms. Others simply don't trust that the government can maintain basic services in the face of an energy crisis.

Seems to me some media types are uncomfortable with the mainstreaming of survivalism, and want it back where it was before.

By 2012, they expect to power their property with solar panels, and produce their own meat, milk and vegetables. When things start to fall apart, they expect their children and grandchildren will come back home and help them work the land. She envisions a day when the family may have to decide whether to turn needy people away from their door.

2012: It's like Y2K, only 12 years later.

Breault said she hopes to someday band together with her neighbors to form a self-sufficient community. Women will always be having babies, she notes, and she imagines her skills as a midwife will always be in demand.

For now, she is readying for the more immediate work ahead: There's a root cellar to dig, fruit trees and vegetable plots to plant.

Lawzy, we got to have a doctor. I don't know nothin' 'bout birthin' babies.

There's more, so go take a look and laugh, or cry, as you want to.

Just do it before 2012.

h/t Traction Control

And yes, I'm going to bold 2012 every time I type it, from now till 2013.