The ‘good’ news is you might not live through the next one.
Food.
Yeah our entire modern agricultural system is basically a process of squirting refined oil into the ground and then food comes out.
Drive up the precursor cost?
Well a whole bunch of that process breaks, and that’s not even considering the oil burned to move things from one place to another.
Even if you solve that problem: Climate’s broke, ain’t gonna fix it at this point. That’ll fuck up food production massively as well.
Population control (culling) via food prices doubling or tripling every few years, and the chaos that results from that.
They’re hoping enough of us will die before we actually try to eat them.
I suggest making what stockpile of edible reserves you can now, keep cycling through it, eat a bit of it, replace more of it, etc.
We got the worst el nino in recorded history, AMOC is currently giving out, as is the ‘doomsday’ glacier… and roughly 1/5 to 1/4 of the world’s oil just stopped, it’ll take years to recover from the damage thats already done.
Everything that has happened so far will be a footnote compared to what happens next.
Exactly. I try to tell this to my family and they all act like I’m crazy. Well my house is stocked atleast even if they don’t stock theirs. I’ve also been experimenting with growing my own food. Have potatoes, corn, blueberries, peaches, blackberries, mullberries, onions, and butternut squashes. Summer squashes and beans going in soon. Also have a few books on edible wild plants and stuff for foraging. Fishing gear too.
Honestly you could just go down to random underdeveloped areas and throw native berry bush seeds and stuff like that around. Then you know where it is if you need it. I’ve got quite a few areas where I’ve just found native edibles and know I can go to find them in a pinch.
one thing I’ve had success with is just buying some dried great northern beans and throwing them around. They grow like crazy and you can eat the bean pods as green beans.
Wait, I don’t remember that happening during Covid. I remember some years before, that happened as part of the 99% anti Wall Street protests… which did nothing.
Yep this will be the fourth or fifth record breaking upward transfers of wealth I’ve lived through. I really don’t want to live through another.
The ‘good’ news is you might not live through the next one.
Food.
Yeah our entire modern agricultural system is basically a process of squirting refined oil into the ground and then food comes out.
Drive up the precursor cost?
Well a whole bunch of that process breaks, and that’s not even considering the oil burned to move things from one place to another.
Even if you solve that problem: Climate’s broke, ain’t gonna fix it at this point. That’ll fuck up food production massively as well.
Population control (culling) via food prices doubling or tripling every few years, and the chaos that results from that.
They’re hoping enough of us will die before we actually try to eat them.
I suggest making what stockpile of edible reserves you can now, keep cycling through it, eat a bit of it, replace more of it, etc.
We got the worst el nino in recorded history, AMOC is currently giving out, as is the ‘doomsday’ glacier… and roughly 1/5 to 1/4 of the world’s oil just stopped, it’ll take years to recover from the damage thats already done.
Everything that has happened so far will be a footnote compared to what happens next.
Exactly. I try to tell this to my family and they all act like I’m crazy. Well my house is stocked atleast even if they don’t stock theirs. I’ve also been experimenting with growing my own food. Have potatoes, corn, blueberries, peaches, blackberries, mullberries, onions, and butternut squashes. Summer squashes and beans going in soon. Also have a few books on edible wild plants and stuff for foraging. Fishing gear too.
Yep, all good plans if you got any land to grow anything on.
I’m apartment-bound, so, maybe aquaponics is in my future.
Honestly you could just go down to random underdeveloped areas and throw native berry bush seeds and stuff like that around. Then you know where it is if you need it. I’ve got quite a few areas where I’ve just found native edibles and know I can go to find them in a pinch.
Ah guerllia gardening! Or something like that.
Also not the worst idea.
Just make your own unauthorized food garden haha!
one thing I’ve had success with is just buying some dried great northern beans and throwing them around. They grow like crazy and you can eat the bean pods as green beans.
It’s plain as day and nobody gives a shit. Stunning.
‘Don’t look up’, I guess.
At this point many people won’t. Hard to squeeze blood out of a dried, overworked, malnutritioned poisoned and diseased husk of a laid off worker.
Can’t wait until enough people are unemployed that nothing is stopping them from marching in the streets.
Remember what happened during covid layoffs? People brought tents to the protests and camped out for months…
Wait, I don’t remember that happening during Covid. I remember some years before, that happened as part of the 99% anti Wall Street protests… which did nothing.
Well, they leaked the Panama papers, which showed exactly how and how much they are stealing/defrauding… which did nothing.
You’ve already forgotten about the BLM protests?