What are everyone's thoughts on Kaczynski's position that a revolutionary movement must be formed to force the industrial system's collapse, because it must collapse sooner rather than later, since if it is left to continue to grow there won't be anything left to sustain life (or a good life for a long time) in the future once it collapses on it's own? (Ref. to the books Technological Slavery and Anti-Tech Revolution).

How about using this lovely named subreddit that's been around for 7 years to complement /r/collapse?

Ok there a few things I wanna know here

1. How to keep your teeth clean
2. How to keep your privates clean
3. A Recipe on soap

Considering a lot of people would starve to death simply looking for foo. The fact that factories would rot, and simply probably more then 75 percent of the population would probably die. Do you think that people really are gonna be focusing precious time on building a gun or would we go back to spears which are much simpler to make.

Was looking for this group...

I’ve been joking with friends about life feeling like a weird role playing game mix between “plague inc” and something like fall out.

So for my during/ post apocalypse/pandemic skill training I’m working on putting some points into “farming” on the skill tree... specifically in “container growing” “vermiculture”, “sprouting”, “cloning”, and “hydroponics”.

Next, I think I’ll be focusing on “blacksmithing”, “machining” etc etc.

So, how are y’all doing?

Hey guys. I'm new here. I don't know if what I'm looking for even exists. I figured I'd check, though. I'm wanting to start a garden to grow staple crops. I'm a truck driver, though, so I can't really get home to tend to them often (I'm home once every 8 to 10 weeks). I have roommates who I can likely convince to water the damn things, but I doubt I can get them to do any weeding. So what are some hardy, calorie dense crops that can survive on their own for long stretches of time between tending? Any advice for the newbie is greatly appreciated.

I am not really sure where to ask this.

Given that hospitals will be overrun and non-functioning, I'd like to acquire some medication to help treat coronavirus:

Ventolin inhaler (bronchodilator), Flovent Inhaler (corticosteroid), and possibly 5mg prednisone tablets.

How on earth can I get these without having a prescription for them? I'd only use them if I were in dire need.

Hey guys I plan to buy a 6 month supply of freeze dried food but I would like some input on which companies offered the best prices and options. What else should I consider as part of a three to six month package for just myself?

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I've learned a few of foraging skills. I've learned quite a lot about garden, preserving, and balancing vitamin and mineral needs. But.....

Does anyone know where I can get vitamin information on wild plants? I'm guessing dandelion leaves and yellow woodsorrel have vitamin-C because most other greens have vitamin-C...but I'd rather not risk scurvy based on a theory.

I'm a lacto vegetarian and thinking about turning towards meat consumption. Following are some thoughts I had when i was thinking about growing food in my backyard.

Yeah I know that an acre of vegetarian food feeds more people and do less emissions than an acre used to grow feed for animals and then eating those animals.

But that is possible because we have to technology to grow food from earth, i.e. industrial agricultural. Take that away and the yield will be easily half of what it is today.

There are a lot of variables which will make being vegetarian post collapse drastically inefficient. I'm taking rabbits as my food source in this example. As my assets i have 500 sqf of fertile land in backyard.

1. Weather will be highly unexpected post collapse. Extreme temperatures can easily kill your crops. While in case of my rabbits I can provide them protection from those elements. Food for rabbit like grass/ hay and trees is also more resilient than crops to extreme weather variations.
2. Yield will be very low. In 500 sqf if I try to grow grains as my main food, I'll get very negligible amount of food per day/season. Instead if I plant grass/hay in whole field every inch of land will be highly packed with food for them. I could also plant 1-2 trees in that area whose leaves will also work as food for my rabbit/animal.
3. Growing crops will also drain soil of nutrients. Now in a collapsed society we won't have all those fancy chemicals to recharge our land. Now if i become partially dependent on meat, their guts,remains,poop and whatever didn't went in my stomach, I can bury that and make my own compost.
4. Leather. Learn leather crafting skills and it'll be like gold.
5. Changing places (migration) is easy. If due to some reasons I'd have to shift I can take my livestock with me but not my crops. And post migration I have readily available food from day 1
6. I think grass/hay etc also require less water than crops.Idk tell me if im wrong.
7. Farming is very hard. Not everyone can do it. Raising meat animals is relatively easy.

Yeah being veg is good but the crops need certain special environments and are very delicate. They also need a lot of time to prepare and aren't very nutritious on their own. You are also left with a lot of waste after taking out edible bits from them.

P.S. I'm a lacto vegetarian. Don't know shit about meat consumption. Previously It was because of religious reasons but then it was due to ethical reasons. Now due to logical reasons I'm thinking about slowly shifting towards meat, starting with eggs, fish, chicken.

I mean this is nature right. Everything eats something. Its just a big chemical reaction. The most basic thing is soil and air. Now we consume air but we can't consume soil so we consume plants who consume soil. We can't eat every plant and those we eat will be very rare and hard to grow post collapse. Some animals can eat those plants which we can't eat so our only available option is to eat them. I don't find anything wrong in that as long as you raise them properly and kill them properly.

I have about 900sqf of fertile land (backyard). My idea is to assign 500sqf to grow grass, bushes,hay,some trees to feed my animals and use around 400 sqf to grow some veggies like parsley, spinach, chillies, lemons,leafy veggies etc. How to make best use of it.

Please share your insights about this.

Hey there guys, thought i might be able to provide some tips and tricks given my odd past so here we go (I am no writer beware)

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1 dealing with the cold

-If you still have a shirt and find yourself out in the cold having no means to warm you up until you can start a fire find paper , newspapers and scrunch it up and start packing it into your shirt it will provide insulation and keep you warm until you can get a fire going or until it warms up

- in the case of being cold if you happen to have some liquid courage as much as it may seem it will make you feel better and warm you up it will actually do the opposite and fast track you to hypothermia and maybe even loss of limbs so do not drink it in an attempt to get warm it will just make you sick

- beware of wind, you can use branches and things you find out in the woods to make blankets and easy cover for yourself to protect you until the rain dies down. gather sticks and start ripping apart bushes using twine to create 2 triangles that you can slide underneath attaching the 2 at the tips with string or another branch then covering with foliage as thick as possible to keep wind out (it seems useless but it helps and is better than nothing, burying yourself in dirt can help (yes it seems insane even stupid but if it gets bad enough it will help just like snow will provide insulation)

- Skids / pallets, (we are getting weird here) say you are out in the bush but nearby on the outskirts of town there is a place with pallets outside, you can drag some of these out and tear them down to create shelter from rain for yourself by kicking them apart or using rocks and your feet to pry and bash them apart then using individual pieces to create as water proof of a surface as you can (if you have a tarp or see plastic bags around use them) to get under once you prop it up and cover it with brush or now. You also might be able to use these to burn but be careful as some are treated with chemicals you don't want to breathe in

- Garbage bags : you can make a raincoat out of garbage bags , this is pretty self explanatory, not pretty but works and keeps you dry

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Food

- buy yourself some books on plants in your local area to figure out what you can and cannot eat, after enough study and practice you may even begin to start to figure out what is edible and not just by looking at it or putting a bit on your tongue and seeing what happens (be cautious of course, emergency scenarios here) you will be surprised how much out there you can eat without ill effect to yourself or minimal effect

-things like powdered soup mixes while awful can be compact and easy to carry allowing you to cook them in a small pot or cup you carry with you (perhaps hanging off of your backpack to carry)

- Keep your food sealed and in as many bags as possible to try to keep smell in the best you can, it won't keep everything away but if you can put it up in a tree this will benefit you greatly (make sure its heavy to stop smaller animals from dragging it away)

- If you have a place to cook before you head out this is amazing stuff to have although gross in my opinion (keeps you going) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fE5KzvOZRk

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Coyotes

- Coyotes are something i have personally encountered on multiple occasions and they can be absolutely terrifying if you don't know what to do, but you should know they might also be scared of you. when you go to sleep / set up an area be sure to have a large stick in arms reach because if a coyote shows up you can grab it and wave it around yell, make loud noises and make yourself as large and imposing as possible, tossing dirt and stomping will also help you.

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cuts ,bruises , and burns

- You should have some sort of medical kit of some kind even if only basic including things like isopropyl, polysporin (if possible) gauze, safety pins , tensor bandages, bandaids if you have the room (you can make these out of gauze so not entirely necessary), triangular wraps are also quite important if you happen to break an arm to keep it elevated and immobile (depends how far out you are going from cities here)

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There are many many more things that will be helpful and useful that I have left out, things like flashlights , a way to charge battery's and small portable solar panels I just wanted to try to stick to the more weird stuff hope it helps

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EDIT: if you have anything to add that is vital that i missed please comment below as i am exhausted and may have missed things

Does anyone know a lot on this subject and is willing to share?