As to east of the 100th meridian, who only knows, more so, who out west cares. I used to laugh at the local survivalists. Now I'm wondering if they are not crazy like foxes. And yet it all seems as if there are no limits to growth and the modern world. We talked about whirling disease, they estimate two to three more years before it has spread throughout the entire west, wiping out most all native trout.
Sustainability means some kind of harmony and equilibrium.
No one I know who has actually lived it wants to get old at a subsistence level. Even the toughest cowboys have their trucks. Lets eat money. OK, sorry for the rant, but I'm having a hard time figuring out why we care and why we are different from the majority of our fellow 'mericans who just don't seen to care, or at least don't care to change their lifestyles. All that's missing from that personae is teh desire to get rich, then I'd be ordinary.