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comment by bioemerl

Firstly that video is batshit crazy.

    Why does it take a doomsday threat to make you do what you have always wanted to do?

Because I like living a stable and happy life, and those things are far more valuable than whatever it is I'd do if the world is ending in a few days.

In reality I would begin hoarding food, buy solar and other equipment, and begin downloading large stores of knowledge on how to accomplish various tasks on the internet. Work on building/joinin a community network with my local, rural, farming town of people with various skills, and figure out communication channels so the town itself can form a new, hardier, community right after society ends.





Metapixelatron  ·  2960 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Your answer is the exact oposite to that of kleinbl00. Instead of hunkering down, you chose to find solutions to the problems that might develop. I hope most people will share your mindset, as it will be needed in the future... MIGHT be needed, that is... ominous music plays in the background

bioemerl  ·  2960 days ago  ·  link  ·  

If you are living in a city that depends heavily on outside resources to function, you may well be doing best by hunkering down or getting the fuck out.

Metapixelatron  ·  2958 days ago  ·  link  ·  

As time goes on, people who don't have resources and don't oknow how to produce them would become feral. Most people in big cities don't even know how to plant basic food or which fruits can be eaten. A person with these skills could go to the desperate people and ask them to worrk together. You may think that staying in, by yourself, with guns would be a successful strategy, but it would not. The community around you must be stable, too. Sometimes, that means teaching people basic skills, so they focus on productive actions, instead of destructive actions. That's how I see it, anyway.

bioemerl  ·  2958 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Feral, no. Humans without resources will do what they need to in order to support our families. Nothing feral about that. Doing what you have to in order to keep stability and feed your kids is and should be encouraged.

The cities are full of competent, intelligent people who can and will be able to support themselves, but the thing is that there just isn't enough ability to produce or bring in food without the support of the rest of the farming areas delivering food on massive trips with huge trucks. It's not the people that are bad, we are the ones who formed those cities and built ourselves from the ground up, it's the nature of the changing environment.