Dmitri wrote:I wish there was a website that would track, chronologically, how many times in the past it was said that we only have a couple of months, and then all hell will break loose... Over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over again. Months go by, nothing happens, but nobody seems to notice that all the predictions fell on their paranoid faces, and it comes up again. And years go by, and nothing happens, and it comes up yet again. And here it is now, again, for the umpteenth time. It doesn't seem to matter that there is no solid evidence whatsoever of any such definitive threat (not talking about a "possibility of a threat"). It will always come up; people seem to enjoy these "potential scenarios"... I have a couple of friends that do this all the time. I guess as a psychological mechanism for coping with it if it were somehow to ever happen? I dunno.
Azer wrote:It would be interesting to see the figures for USD in foreign exchange reserves over the past few years and months, should show how USD is being usurped by other currencies. This has been happening for quite a while as far as I am aware, so I doubt its impact would manifest abruptly. There should be enough time for people/government/economy to adjust to some degree. Though, I think the US increasingly and openly using the USD and related financial infrastructure as an economic weapon, as well as recently cracking down on large banking operations who were skirting US sanctions, will accelerate the necessity of many governments and major corporations to limit or avoid USD transactions.
EDIT:
Some old figures here, up to 2011:
http://blogs.piie.com/realtime/?p=2805
I assume the trend has continued.
emptycloud wrote:I am directly involved in trying to develop food security for communities. The most empowering thing a community can do is to take control of its food production and distribution. Currently I am helping rehabilitate old walled gardens and establishing community groups to run the walled gardens as organic food banks. The produce is distributed amongst the growers and we organise free community meals to those who need it.
Organic gardening, permaculture, foraging and hunting, co-operatives of all sorts, salvaging and repair of everything from engines to axes and knives, learning to make clothes and shoes, build shelters and houses like earthships or rammed earth or straw-bale, weatherproofing, homebrewing beer, winemaking, cheesemaking, distilling spirits, growing medicinal plants, and building local and regional networks for sharing and trading food, crafts and skills.
Steve James wrote:Organic gardening, permaculture, foraging and hunting, co-operatives of all sorts, salvaging and repair of everything from engines to axes and knives, learning to make clothes and shoes, build shelters and houses like earthships or rammed earth or straw-bale, weatherproofing, homebrewing beer, winemaking, cheesemaking, distilling spirits, growing medicinal plants, and building local and regional networks for sharing and trading food, crafts and skills.
True, but societies have always come into being and continued precisely because individuals rarely have all of them. Agricultural societies are all based on sharing resources and produce. Collective work is necessary. The blacksmith doesn't have the time to be a farmer. This results in specialization. Pick any pre-industrial society, and that's pretty much how we can predict what a post-apocalyptic population society will look like eventually.
Of course, this also depends on the exact nature of the "apocalypse."
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