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Praise for
Reinventing Collapse
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About the only thing new was a flurry of activity around a newly organized Cooperative movement. A newly hatched entrepreneurial class was busy complaining that their “cooperatives” were only allowed to sell to the government, at government prices, while they contrived ingenuous schemes to skim something off the top through barter arrangements. Most were going bankrupt. It did not turn out to be a successful business model for them or for the government, which was, as it turned out, also on its last legs.
I went back a year later and found a place I did not quite recognize. First of all, it smelled different: the smog was gone. The factories had largely shut down, there was very little traffic and the fresh air smelled wonderful! The shops were largely empty (in the sense of being quite uncontaminated by consumer goods) and often closed. There were very few gas stations open and the ones that were had lines that stretched for many blocks. There was a ten-liter limit on gasoline purchases.
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