I've been reading the treads on topics like bugging out and what are you preparing for. I see a lot of people sharing some good ideas and many have a fairly decent plan for what to do in a given situation. The big question that I don't see most people considering is how do you become sustainable, whether it be in your home or at a BOL.
Hopefully we are all stocking up on food, have a variety of water filtration and sanitation sources, of course guns and ammo are part of the conversation. I read an interesting article a couple weeks ago by a Russian who compared the ability of the Soviet Union to weather the collapse it went through, to how well the United States will be able to do. I will try and find the article and post the link. What the point of the story was the US is much less capable of handling what is coming than the Soviet Union was. It also pointed out that it took a good 10 years for them to recover. So if we are much worse off, and the comparisons they made were quite good, then how long would this collapse that we are facing last, 10 years, 15 years, 20 years? Argentina collapsed in what 2001, they are still battling it.
So back to my point, sustainability... What do you do when your food stores run out? When your fuel runs out for your generator? When your meds run out? If you are bugging in, which many are, what do you do when your neighbor runs out of food? I think you get my point.
I think people need to rethink this whole situation and take a good hard look at the realities of what we face, not if, but when this fragile society we have does collapse. Having a garden in your backyard is good, but are you prepared to put up a 24 hour watch to protect it? Are you prepared to shoot your neighbor when he jumps your fence in the middle of the night and steals your head of lettuce, or your chicken?
If you do have land, hopefully far out enough from the city and remote enough to avoid most of the Golden Horde, do you have the ability to defend it, can you post a 24 hour watch with just you and your immediate family?
This is going to take community to come through this, we cannot survive with each of us bugging in, surrounded by hungry and eventually hostile neighbors. It is going to take people forming groups, like minded individuals and families who are willing to pool resources, skills and literally work their collect butts off to make this happen. It is going to take time and money, most of which from my experience most people don't have enough of or are not willing to commit to this kind of thing.
We need to take this conversation to the next level, but how many are willing to do that? Those in my opinion are the ones that will survive long term. We need to be talking about storing a variety of fuel sources and how to deal with the day when those run out. We need to be talking about not only raising chickens, rabbits, fish, and so on, but how do you deal with the food they will need, how to you grow enough to take care of them so they can be there for us. How do we deal with the drought conditions we are facing, what if this is not just a one of two year thing, but decades? If you can open your mind to the big picture, then we can truly start to prepare. To me prepping has become a lifestyle, I plan to survive, to protect my 3 children and their families not only for today, but tomorrow as well. I am doing what I describe here, how many are willing to do the same? This is the conversation that needs to be had.
Hopefully we are all stocking up on food, have a variety of water filtration and sanitation sources, of course guns and ammo are part of the conversation. I read an interesting article a couple weeks ago by a Russian who compared the ability of the Soviet Union to weather the collapse it went through, to how well the United States will be able to do. I will try and find the article and post the link. What the point of the story was the US is much less capable of handling what is coming than the Soviet Union was. It also pointed out that it took a good 10 years for them to recover. So if we are much worse off, and the comparisons they made were quite good, then how long would this collapse that we are facing last, 10 years, 15 years, 20 years? Argentina collapsed in what 2001, they are still battling it.
So back to my point, sustainability... What do you do when your food stores run out? When your fuel runs out for your generator? When your meds run out? If you are bugging in, which many are, what do you do when your neighbor runs out of food? I think you get my point.
I think people need to rethink this whole situation and take a good hard look at the realities of what we face, not if, but when this fragile society we have does collapse. Having a garden in your backyard is good, but are you prepared to put up a 24 hour watch to protect it? Are you prepared to shoot your neighbor when he jumps your fence in the middle of the night and steals your head of lettuce, or your chicken?
If you do have land, hopefully far out enough from the city and remote enough to avoid most of the Golden Horde, do you have the ability to defend it, can you post a 24 hour watch with just you and your immediate family?
This is going to take community to come through this, we cannot survive with each of us bugging in, surrounded by hungry and eventually hostile neighbors. It is going to take people forming groups, like minded individuals and families who are willing to pool resources, skills and literally work their collect butts off to make this happen. It is going to take time and money, most of which from my experience most people don't have enough of or are not willing to commit to this kind of thing.
We need to take this conversation to the next level, but how many are willing to do that? Those in my opinion are the ones that will survive long term. We need to be talking about storing a variety of fuel sources and how to deal with the day when those run out. We need to be talking about not only raising chickens, rabbits, fish, and so on, but how do you deal with the food they will need, how to you grow enough to take care of them so they can be there for us. How do we deal with the drought conditions we are facing, what if this is not just a one of two year thing, but decades? If you can open your mind to the big picture, then we can truly start to prepare. To me prepping has become a lifestyle, I plan to survive, to protect my 3 children and their families not only for today, but tomorrow as well. I am doing what I describe here, how many are willing to do the same? This is the conversation that needs to be had.
) I've seen many neighborhoods where I believe the neighbors are making efforts to be more self-sufficient. I have no illusions -- I am absolutely positive that if I have noticed it I'm sure folks I don't know, but who know what to look for, have noticed it, too. It is amazing what you can learn about a neighborhood just by walking your dogs and looking around. I know where every nurse, LEO, construction worker, mechanic, welder, gardener, backyard chicken "farmer", and several hunters (and yes, the trouble makers and deadbeats) are in my neighborhood ... I'm pretty damned sure they all know where I am, too.
