pstarr wrote:"I mean, quit yer bitchin and just make plans already. The race has seen tough times before, it's one way of weeding out the genes for stupid."
I must be one of the smart ones. Not only a perfect doomstead (LEED-specified home, solar-powered private well, secure perimeter, orchards, pasture, chicken coop and shed, timber) but I am in the most remote, isolated, watered, temperate, resource-rich place in the most secure stable wealthy state in the most powerful nation on the planet. Whose jealous? lol
All the folks coming after you with guns to make it their own?
You are right of course, just pointing out that no matter the level of prep we are each still vulnerable. No perfect answer....except my HUUUGE moat!