What will you do during the Die-Off?

Question

When oil and natural gas have depleted so much that agriculture must once again be done with hand tools and animal power, without artificial fertilizer, without pesticides, and there is no fuel for trucks to carry the produce to markets far from the farms, lots of people will starve. Experts are saying that 90% of the human race will die. How will you avoid being among the losers?

Answer 1

Dancing a jig.

All you city aholes will be dead

Answer 2

I'll probably be out in my garden or tending to my livestock.  I dont need electricity for survival.  Would miss my computer a bit though.

Answer 3

You provided many interesting links, thank you.

To answer your question, our lives will be continueing on much as they are currently.  My husband and I live on a permaculture farm, and already grow much of our own food.  I will very much miss bannanas, mushrooms, and lemons however.

We live in the high mountain deserts of Idaho.  The very land, and eliments will keep the ravenous hordes from the cities away.  City people simply souldn't be able to survive long enough to reach this far intot he mounatins and loot and pilliage.  Today is March 31...spring has already begun in milder climates.  Today we have 35mph winds, snow, and of all things lightening.  The snow plows are running to keep the roads clear.  The land and weather will do very nicely to keep us safe.

Along with growing our own food, we also grow our own fuel (rapeseed).  So we will still be mobile in our vehicles.  

Along with that we own horses, from draft horses, down to a large pony.  The horses will do their part to keep us mobile, work the land, and haul goods.

95% of the population around us, is the same religion...LDS (Mormon).  Food stores, communication, and orginization will not be a problem amoung the people here.  The Mormons were there with semi truckloads of supplies 6 HOURS after Katrina ended.  The Mormons are nothing if not prepared to deal with emergencies (even radical life changing emergencies).

Since our farm is a permaculture farm, we already fertilize with our animals manure.  I raise meat rabbits, and meat goats.  I'll be able to keep our family not only in meat, but also dairy products.  This will of course expand to our neighbors.

My husband and I have the large, centrally located home.  Last time we counted there would be 25 immediate family members we figure would be living here, and about 10 dear family friends.

Out of those people there is only a single person who does not have an appreciable skill which the group would need (sans the small children).  Hopefully the drive to feed her children, and pressure from the family would cause her to work, and work hard.

We have teachers, chemists, botonists, R.N.'s, gunsmiths, master carpenters, avid hunter/fishermen, a real teamster (works with drafthorses), mechanics, seamstress, blacksmiths (not just shoeing horses), engineers, farmers (crops & livestock),  basically every skill you need to set up a new civilization.  The only thing we are sadly lacking is a cobbler (makes shoes for humans).

Three of the people also have extremely large, personal libraries.  Those three will all be living together on the same homestead within 5 years, so the libraries will be safe.

It is funny to think that with our livestock, and the vast amount of archaic knowledge my husband and I posses, we will go from being lowly farmers, to people of power, and weath, as things come full cirlce.  

The only true form of wealth is biological wealth.  Livestock, land, crops, and other food producing plants.  People who own those items, and know how to properly manage and have them produce will gain great power.

We also know how to make stills, and brew alchohol.  We do not drink ourselves.  Yet the ability to make alchohol will also give us vast power.  People will sell their souls (or guns) for a bottle of alchohol to drink and drown their troubles in.

Our group also have other important skills.  Besides having several ladies who are EXCELENT cooking from scratch  (butcher the animal, grind the grain kind of cooking from scratch), we also have a couple of wonderful story tellers, and sevral who play musical instraments.  Without good food, and forms of entertainment, moral declines, and depression can set in.  

Being prepared allows one to see drastic events as challenges and adventures.  Many of those who are not prepared will have depression and hopelessness overcome them....they will virtually lay down and die.

I will miss the internet (for a short while) and the radio (for a long while).  I havent' shopped at a mall in 10 years or so now.  We turned off the TV a couple years ago.  For entertainment we gather with friends, and play cards, and board games, chatt and have potluck dinners.  

Frankly, our lives will not change much.

~Garnet

Homesteading/Farming over 20 years

Answer 4

by that time the earth will be recycling you & I as dust in the wind , gasses dispersed in the atmosphere & molecules of water falling as rain, unless your selfish enough to have your body entomed in a lead lined stone casket. even then that will only delay your recycling for a few thousand years.

have a nice life & hope your decendents are smarter than you are. :)

Answer 5

this won't happen already we can power vehicles by electricity (nucleur generation and renewables) and hydrogen

Answer 6

pff.... easy. I'll set up food storage in my garage and dig up a basement in my house to make room for more.