Enforced Localisation - 1st June 2015

Key Localisation Facts in 2015

Government Policies

• Investment in capital projects ceases through lack of funding
• Interest rates increase to counter inflation caused by high fuel costs
• Government is destabilised due to restless impoverished citizens

Economy

• Energy prices are destabilised
• Unemployment is widespread

Business

• Multinationals decentralise to try and adapt to changing supply and demand
• Construction ceases completely due to prohibitive energy costs and lack of buyers' market
• Business with local suppliers & customers thrives; repair services also in demand

Households

• People start growing food for personal use
• Local currencies develop
• Debt crisis as home-owners caught in negative equity Culture

Culture

What are we eating?

• Local farm & home grown produce
• Nuts, berries & roots
• Tinned goods stockpiled by survivalists
• Atlantic seaweed

What are we watching?

• Ground Force are now converting gardens for vegetable growing
• Starship MicroEnterprise
• Jim'll Fix It

Most popular Websites

• www.growyourownfood.com
• www.creditunions.ie
• www.fas.ie

What are we selling

• Working horse for sale. One owner, in good condition with new set of steel shoes. Doesn't eat much and high emissions will help grow your cabages! Loves to work.
• Best wheelbarrows in town for sale in exchange for cars in sound condition.
• Mobile Super Shop Bank - Post Office - Library See our new timetable at http://www.shopcometou.cork
• Bouncy Castles - Closing Down Sale - Everything Must Go
• Veg growing classes start next Wednesday at 7pm in the Community Centre.
• We own an old landfill. Do you want what’s in it?

Headlines

• Irish draft horse prices now higher than those of new tractors - Horse make a return to the farm.
• Survey reveals Irish now slimmer and fitter than 2005 - We are living healthier lives - better food and more excercise.
• Liffy hand-dredged for bikes and prams - One of the big differences between 2015 and 1805 is that we have Junk. All kinds of junk is being given a new lease of life.
• Castlecomer coal mine reopened - Ireland's limited coal mines are being reopened.
• Cork warlords declare independant state - Law and order has broken down in some areas.
• Riots at allotments over cabbage - Food supplies can be very limited at the end of the winter and in some areas there are fights over remaining food supplies.
• Foreign correspondants sacked as Ireland looses interest in outside world - We are foced to become virtually self-sufficient for our essential needs and therefore have little interest is what is happening out there.
• Bicycle factory fueld by biomass and wind opens in Westport - Many businesses are gone bust, but many more, usually small scale and local, are opening.