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- From: billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson)
- Subject: Re: Singin' Those Apocalypse Blues
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.010859.23783@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com>
- Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company, Corvallis, Oregon USA
- References: <1992Dec22.004905.17458@u.washington.edu>
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 01:08:59 GMT
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- grimoire@byron.u.washington.edu (John Greer) writes:
- (John's comments are preceeded by ':')
- : >>
- : >> a) in order to make it your group is going to have to have sources of food
- : >> and other resources in its control that will meet its needs for the
- : >> indefinite future. That doesn't mean huge stockpiles -- it means having
- : >> the necessary skills to create those resources out of naturally occurring
- : >> raw materials. Farming is an obvious example. You'll want some stored
- : >> food, in case the processes of collapse involve changes in the weather
- : >> patterns sufficient to wreck your crops a couple of years running, but
- : >> beyond that you're going to want to concentrate on learning how to produce
- : >> food, not just living off an irreplaceable backlog.
-
- You had better concentrate more on finding ways to protect your production.
- Otherwise, others will take it away from you.
-
- ... delided ...
-
- : >A year and a half's supply of freeze dried gunk is a hell of a
- : >lot of food to be stockpiling. That alone would probably put you in
- : >the "crazy survivalist" camp in the eyes of your neighbors.
- : >
- :
- : True enough. And you're quite correct that stored food has an important
- : place in this kind of planning. Instead of waiting until you have to
- : depend on your farming for survival to start making your mistakes and
- : figuring out how to handle a survival situation, though, why not get a head
- : start on it? Start working on the gardening and preserving skills, and
- : so it as if it were for real -- for example, no rubber rings even though
- : the supermarket still stocks them.
- :
- : Other than that, though, point well made.
-
- So, why do you have to tell the neighbors about your cache?
-
- Bill
-