As our athletes look forward to 2016 they have been promised the same level of funding that has enabled them to achieve such great success in 2012. A business as usual policy seems to have been adopted by the government.
However I personally wonder how easy this will be able to be achieved in practical terms. I feel certain that our world is going to look very different in 4 years time to what it does now, socially, economically and environmentally.
It would seem reasonable to expect judging by
today's video and what I believe myself to be true through my own research, that there is going to be less and less money available year on year to buy things and fund things with spiraling debt and a declining oil supply and that is even before currencies start to collapse as the Euro surely will by the end of the year. The ongoing crisis will affect us all and impact on our businesses big and small where we will be left with a simple choice to compete for everything and anything we can get our hands on or learn to collaborate across the board.
Many households are already feeling the repercussions of increased oil prices on both sides of the balance sheet, something that is only going to be experienced more and more by people as we go forward because our whole society has been built on cheap and plentiful oil supporting continued growth, unfortunately neither is possible when oil declines as a resource, we cannot work our way out of it.
I feel sure in the not too distant future we will have to adopt far cheaper ways of housing ourselves if not alternative ways of living altogether, consuming far less and learning to grow our own food as well as of course creating a far better relationship between each other and the planet to bring us back into alignment, allowing us to live in harmony again.
One of the successes of London 2012 was the number of golds won by the cycling team not necessarily inspiring a generation but perhaps a whole new mode of transport.
When I visited
Tamera last year - a community of the future, I saw fantastic innovations in solar technology, water retention and permaculture. I also witnessed a culture that believes that our greatest work lies in how we relate to one another and so long as war and conflict exists within love and our most basic relationships then there will never be peace in the wider world.
Another interesting development within their community this summer was their experiment with a gift economy, a way of offering products and services for free or by donation with love, where by the more you give the richer you become, perhaps best explained by
Charles Eisenstein who is aiming to re-establish this ancient tradition.
If the amount of money you have had available to you has been a block in investing in the gifts I have to offer people,
contact me now and perhaps together we can start a new gift economy here too. More on this next time.
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