Thursday, February 05, 2009

Some of you may not know this, but I am a professional Psychic amongst my many talents. I have been reading Tarot for nearly 30 years and teaching it for about 15 or more years. I have been doing it on line for just over a year now. My experience up till then was face to face readings. Most of the clients I have had in the past wanted to know something to do with their relationships. I have had many other questions, but up till recently the majority has been relationships. Since the major downturn in the world economy I have been getting more and more clients that want readings on their carreers, or choices to take in schooling for a job.

In a broad sense I know that health care will always need people since there are more people getting older that will need caring for. The other big industry that will need new people is the "Alternative" "Green" energy sector. Just for the sake of keeping things simple I would include any home renovations like replacing windows and adding extra insulation or replacing energy hog appliances with more up-to-date ones in to that general catagory. A subset of that would be all the new upstart cars that will be intergrated into a new, smart metered system where solar panels on cars can generate extra electricity to put back into the grid when they have topped off their batteries.

A third big sector that will be the driving edge of the economy will be farming and local community gardens. Farmers are about to go through a major change. In the third world countries where farmers grow on small plots of land, they have been using GMO seeds and buying the fertilizers and other chemicals to get a crop that does not meet up with the claims the seed companies gave. The terminator seeds have been modified so they will be sterile. That means the farmers are forced to buy seeds every year.The result is farmers going so far in debt that they can never repay the seed companies like monsanto have committed suicide. That has gotten many farmers to switch back to the old ways of farming using organic methods and saving seeds that have not been modified. One problem here is now that the GMO seeds have been out there for a few years, there have mixed their genes with the local varieties, with usually strange results. At some point the entire world is going to rebel against the GMO companies and simply not buy their death-dealling seeds and the chemicals that are neded to support them. They will become unsustainable plain and simple. The entire food industry will be forced to go organic since that is the only sustainable practice we have. That means that when the oil prices go through the roof the big machines will sit idle(unless the have been modified to run on diesel or ethanol)(engine modifications will be a big business in the future) and the humble ox and horse will make a comeback. The big factory farms that are mono-cropped will be a thing of the past. Since globalization will be limited by fuel restaints, growing a crop for shippment will dwindle down to a trickle. The only crops that may have a future are coffee, sugar and spices, with the rare shippment of fruit(like oranges at christmas was in the past). Hardy dried fruit like dates, figs and olives will still be traded as well as various nuts. Cheap rice will be a thing of the past. The new/old food that will make a huge comeback will be Hemp seed and all the things that can be made from hemp. Hemp seed at one time was so cheap it was fed to the birds or made into a gruel for poor people to eat . Currently the price is around $10.00 a kilo, depending here you can get it, if you can get it. In order for that price to drop, Hemp will have to be grown everywhere. The US is in crisis mode and if Obama was smart he would make Hemp legal to grow this year. The farmers down there are demanding the right to grow it and they have proven that they can have a strain that has almost no THC in it, just like the industrial hemp we grow here in Canada.

At some point the US will be forced to grow hemp again. They do not have a choice. It would be in their own best interest to get the farmers going NOW!

So those are my big three areas for employment in the future. I welcome any comments you may have.

Michael J. Kaer , Author of "What Money Can't Buy"

1 comment:

Jamwes said...

Hemp is the way to go.