louisfranck

The city of London is hemorrhaging. Like a giant whale, the guts and blood of the financial sector are spilling down the drains of Fleet street. People have never made so much money for so little and never have lost so many jobs so quickly (aside for wartime). Everyone is hurting and everyone has come to the realization that we are one big co-dependent family now. Spaceship earth is all we’ve got and we better get along . The future will be ruled by debate or war. War is becoming increasingly industrialized (read P.W. Singer on the matter) so I prefer discussion as a means to resolve conflict. Global suffering is also rising and the divide between rich and poor nations is becoming desperate. There is a limit to how much people can take. We will have to join hands or break them. Then we have the end of the oil era which has already started. Its too big to fathom and digest in one gulp. Our entire economic model, cities and infrastructure is based on cheap energy enabling goods and people to move easily and quickly over vast distances. The huge suburbs that have cropped up around the world are particularly vulnerable to the end of oil. They have no crop fields to sustain them, no community that creates goods locally, they don’t even have the classic structure of river, hill and woods. Suburbs are unsustainable without cars and transportation servicing them at all levels (food, water, electricity, etc...). Where will all these people relocate when their jobs and property are gone? How can one sustain a city the size of New York when most of its food is imported from other states or countries thousands of miles from the United States? With less and less farmers in the world and an abandoned country side, what will the modern farm do when there are no more industrial fertilizers, pesticides and petrol to run their extensive machinery? The small shock rippling across the world is nothing next to the seismic wave that is upon us. We need to wake up now, gently, before the alarm bell shocks us out of our slumber. Meanwhile oil nations are playing a risky game of chess. Time is not necessarily on their side. The faster industrialized nations wean themselves out of their dependency on oil, the more oil producing nations have to loose. What will they do when the chips come down? However you look at it, the conflict will be so big, the tensions so vast that it is impossible for the changes coming ahead to be peaceful.

Some people have been asking what was the cover song I performed with Dima during Moloko Music Fest.
The song was: "Dinner at Eight" by Rufus Wainwright.