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It’s ironic that 1/2 the population thinks global warming is an existential threat to the survival of the mankind, at the same time the same group thinks we can win a nuclear war with Russia.
My concern is today’s weather forecast being sunny and 510 degrees in Boston. Now that’s real global warming.
It is wise to monitor the self-destruction of the rentier class from safe cover, but carefully prepare to block the impulse to become emotionally involved as things deteriorate.
Nukes would be bad, but would save most of us the trouble of struggling to survive. Social collapse is more likely our chief problem, as we are in the midst of an engineered one at the moment. It isn’t ugly yet. Monitor, but disengage.
Just in case, some advice from an old guy who plans to crack a bottle of the good stuff and wait for the mob to come over the hill:
The new feudalists have a lot of good tech, but they only trust people they can corrupt; it’s all they know or understand. That’s weak AF, once the hammer falls.
You need a few hands of adults and their children, and everybody over 8 must be able to walk ten miles a day on trail food.
Your hidden book safe should be as humidity and light-free as possible. Start with math and engineering textbooks from the fifties and sixties.
Like a rock wall that leans out for 20 years then suddenly falls, the denouement will be fast. Be farther from the city than hungry people can run before they start catching and eating each other.
Education is a parent’s duty. First and last, they will learn what you live. Therefore, belovèd, live some good old Newtonian physics, on a foundation of second-year trig, with a heaping helping of knot-tying skills.
Most of the waddling survivalist wannabes will run out of ammo before they run out of alcohol, then starve for lack of trapping experience. If you want to arm your family for larger game and self-defense, learn the bola. You can practice on those robot dogs they have out patrolling the parks. Cows are slow but tough to bring down. Deer are fragile but fleet. Thinking ahead is your deadliest weapon.
Twelve waders scaring fish into a downstream weir are more efficient than fifty professional fly fishermen.
There is evidence of agrarian settlements in temperate zones going back to before the Younger Dryas, 11,000 years ago: You have the genes for it. No little house was ever raised on a prairie without voluntary mutualism, whose currency is social obligation. We were all raised in communist cells, aka nuclear families. Your new ideology/religion/cult dogma/politics will be hoping someone returns with food today.
Remember that 80% of your neighbors were stupid enough to make themselves and their children the test subjects for an experimental gene-editing injection… rather than buck the herd. Herds can be dangerous, but smart they are not.