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The immediate meta-situation is Peak Oil. The latent meta-situation is Post-Peak Oil. All social, economic and political phenomena are determined by a society's ability to harness energy, ergo to do work. When a society's ability to harness energy is depleted, then work cannot be accomplished. Social, economic and political collapse is imminent. Please read the Peak Oil links in the Resources Page. Discover your own Peak Oil sites. Determine for yourself the inescapable validity of our predicament and its consequences so that you may own the responsibility of clear perception. This is the terrible incentive to see clearly, to assume responsibility, to crawl through the morass and denial of ideological vanity, parochialism and ineptitude in order to take appropriate political action.
New England Groups Look to Secede, by Jim Kozubek, New Hampshire Union Leader, August 11, 2008
NEW CASTLE For the time political campaigns have been moving to centrism, integrating voter blocs and appealing to unity, scattered groups across New England have been moving to fractionalize, to break their states from the union.
Burt Cohen, 57, a former state senator, is leading a front in New Hampshire to secede from the U.S., and join with Maine, Vermont, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island and Gaspé Peninsula to create a new authority called New Acadia or Novacadia based on maps of a 1702 maritime union. (Continued)
Political Mandate and Identity Shift to the Proposed Novacadia Independence Party, by Sebastian Ronin, April, 2008
During the course of "marketing" my independent candidacy in Central Nova in 2007 I became affiliated with the fledgling Atlantica Party. Our point of mutual concern and interest was the notion of Maritime Union for the Atlantic provinces. However, we disagreed fundamentally on the political motives for Maritime Union to such an extent that I felt it was in everyone's best interests to simply withdraw my support. (Continued)
The Clarity Act (2000): An Overview
The Clarity Act (2000) is federal legislation that enables provinces to legally secede from Canada. The act sought to clarify the legalities of Quebec seceding from Canada, but applies equally to all provinces. By extension, one unified Novacadia province can use the Clarity Act (2000) to legally secede from Canada. (Continued)
Novacadia, by Thomas H. Naylor, Second Vermont Republic
Some proponents of Vermont independence would like to see it become and remain a stand-alone nation, completely independent of either the United States or Canada. Others have proposed that it join Canada or an independent Quebec. My own favorite fantasy would be for Vermont to join Maine, New Hampshire, and the four Atlantic provinces of Canada to create a new nation I would call Novacadia. (Continued)
