The Ultimate Post Peak Habitat

backstop · Posted: Tue Sep 14, 2004 7:10 pm Post subject:

Pops - I liked your advice about getting $50 worth of beans, a stock of water and a big stick, rather than buying a gun.

When I landed at Caracas airport some years ago on a 2 year research trip round South & Central America, a friend suggested we go straight to a gun shop as a matter of course. I declined and, later, got a good solid walking stick. It kept me alive in the Andes and kept me out of hospital in the cities.

I suspect you'd agree that it's not carrying a weapon that keeps you safe, it's how you carry yourself.

With regard to your very sane outline of a small farm I would differ on just one point. Given a somewhat larger acreage of woodland, a small wood gasifyer would yield woodgas both for summer cooking and for transport.

Best of luck with the farm,

Backstop

lotrfan55345 · Posted: Tue Sep 14, 2004 8:29 pm Post subject: The Ultimate Post-Peak Habitat:

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Yeah!

Metro Manila!

Michael_FJS · Posted: Wed Sep 15, 2004 6:45 pm Post subject:

DevilHouse · Coal Joined: Sep 15, 2004 Posts: 12

Doom, gloom, doom, gloom. Are you all so convinced that when peak oil occurs that everything will self-destruct? I'll admit I've entertained the idea, but the more I think about it, the more I'm convinced we'd revert to a militant society before we became a bunch of survivalists. Why are you all so convinced that the entire infrastructure would collapse? Quite frankly, everyone running for the hills would probably make any issues we're having worse. The 2 biggest issues of Peak Oil are the economic depression we'll suffer through and finding a substitute for plastics. Transportation can be surplanted by new diesels fairly easily.