It Strikes Me Funny: Headline - House Starts Plummet

[Link to yesterday’s London Free Press for context]

I’m definitely no prophet or mind-reader but it struck me funny yesterday to read the headline above and sub-head (Housing starts dropped 40 per cent in November) and not read the following:

We knew a long slowdown was going to happen eventually.

After all, we can’t keep growing our city as if without limit.

Yes, we are affected by the weakening global economy, but soon, if not already, fuels will show signs of depletion and most everything we touch will become more expensive.

So - get used to it.


["live small, like birds": photo GAH]

Slowdowns and more expensive fuel costs and changing economies of scale and lifestyles will soon be just a matter of course.

It could already be happening. The article said, “New home construction is headed to its fourth consecutive year of decline, the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation said yesterday.”

Besides housing starts, what else will plummet or go into steady decline until alternative fuel sources catch up to the former availability and cost of cheap oil?

And will that ever happen?

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