alxd of the Story Seed LibraryAug 25, 2023

I find https://www.okdoomer.io/youre-not-going-to-make-it/ to be a nice little essay for all those people who think they can just leave the society during a #climateApocalypse and live #offGrid nicely.

It states again and again: you're not going to make it on your own.

We either build resilience together, as a #solarpunk society and communities, or we won't make it.

Let's not romanticize off-grid, homesteading and bunkers.

One more good line:

"The best kind of prepping is emotional."

You're Not Going to Make It

I read about this one family... They were tired of society. They thought civilization was unraveling. They wanted to live off the grid. Authorities found their mummified remains a few months later. The family died from exposure and malnutrition. They didn't make it. A while back, a prepper tried to

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@alxd

The problem with going to the woods during times of collapse is that everyone else goes to the woods, too. The area that can be reached on a single tank of gas becomes populated like a city, perhaps even moreso if consider the cover to flesh needing cover ratio. That which can be hunted or gathered is quickly exhausted and the newcomers become meat in a dark forest of hungry things.

Aug 25, 2023 at 5:01pmWeb