People in most poor countries adapt really quickly to changing realities without going crazy and turning on one another. People don't get upset about losing shit and a super hard life if that is all they have ever known.
The all pervasive TV set, smart phone, and internet have made these people aware they do not need to live that way.
Also they understand where they live may not be even livable much longer
5 Year old article from the new England journal of Medicine.
"With a rising death toll from chronic kidney disease of unknown origin (CKDu) — also known in Central America as Mesoamerican nephropathy — and with greenhouse gas emissions driving global temperature increases, we are woefully short of early screening tools and treatment options for tens of thousands of patients. CKDu was first described in El Salvador in the 1990s, when unusually large numbers of agricultural workers began dying from irreversible renal failure.
1 It quickly became evident that the phenomenon was pervasive among innumerable agricultural communities in hot, humid regions of Central America."
Just pack up and walk north....
Was it in this forum I read a comment about Ted kazcynsky and his manifesto?
I knew of it but never read it before and I skimmed it quickly.
Our technology is not only our life support system but its the threat to our survival.
As mad as a sack of frogs, but he did have a point.
The truth about surviving the fall of civilization is that we can not bring our most destructive technologies with us if they were the cause of the collapse in the first place.
Just about everything we have or use around is is causing the world more harm than good now.
So when I read a thread from a Prepper I wonder what sort of world does this person imagine he can build from the scraps of the old.
Is this really a smart way to spend your time and resources?
Or should we be putting our minds towards things that might work to solve the bigger problems?
I see glimmers of hope with renewable energy from the sun...
Sustainable agriculture.
Recycle reuse!
Finally I see the possibility we can get the global population to naturally start to shrink to a level the earth can carry without the external inputs we need now like oil and minerals ( the massive inputs I mean, we will always need these things its just the rate and quantity we use that scares me )
I see the possibility we might be able to do this peacefully.
The idea of Prepping however is inward looking and I don't see how it will solve any of the real worlds problems.
Its just hoarding resources.
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