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MALTHUS’ GORE WARMING 3

The fabled and feared Golden Horde ( feared by pampered suburban White Bread as the mixture has a certain darker skin tone than what one is accustomed to.  Hey, no judgment here, my brother.  You’d be an idiot not to be afraid of an alien culture of malcontents ) usually has a certain characteristic dictated by the reality of our time-the Oil Age transportation industry.  The Golden Horde is fleet of foot as they mostly all have automobiles.  As with military tactics, so with personal civilian ownership.  Autos allow better mobility ( rail is of course far better at efficiency but is static-while Blitzkrieg owed much to the tank and more advanced aircraft, you can’t discount the ability to move beyond the rail head that characterized the first World War ).  This is where your Drift Lines and Interstate Danger guidelines come from in advice on the Golden Horde, and they are largely correct ( with an important caveat being that some highways are simply a lot busier than others and the isolated ones don’t automatically spell danger ).

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The Golden Horde is a particular danger to that breed of complacent survivalist who believes that catastrophe is both Either/Or and Short Term.  They mostly think that since ever increasing amounts of petroleum have constantly been applied to the ills of our society that they always can be and shall be forevermore, that only when those supplies are instantly cut off will there be a problem, and that once the problem occurs it will be over with pretty darn quick.  Hence the four months of freeze dried foods, a generator with four months of fuel, the fourteen semi-automatic weapons with four months of ammo with tactics set on “spray and pray” and the whole host of other short term solutions to preserve the non-negotiable American Way Of Life.  To them, the Darkies invading from the big city is the danger.  Of course Wonder Bread Survivalists also live in those same cities but obviously think themselves smarter and wilier and they can outthink their nemesis’ by fleeing the urban area quicker.  Let me respond to that with one word-hubris.  However, back on point. 

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The Golden Horde danger is era specific.  It is equivalent to planning a military invasion with horses and carriages.  Once the equipment changes, so do the results.  Gore Warming Refugees will be, by definition, afoot.  The economic collapse has already occurred ( if it hadn’t, we’d still have a near monopoly control on global oil and be able to use that to negate the effects of climate change up to a certain point ) and there won’t be fuel to move by auto.  And, allow me to underline an important point, if you have hoarded gasoline and you do move this way, there are a hundred different ways for pedestrians to stop you-so don’t do it.  The bulk of the population will no longer have internal combustion conveyances.  They also are not as compressed of a mob.  It is more of a continuous wave.  You can, mostly, assume that they will stick to roads, but they won’t be funneled down Interstate highways only.  And since everyone lives at the end of a road, only one in a thousand a cranky old hermit living at the end of a game trail, you will have visitors.  And they won’t be as nice to deal with as Golden Horders.

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The Golden Horde mostly arrives as a mob or two.  The valiant townspeople ( along with legions of kickass babes with Linda Hamilton abilities because no prepper fantasy discards that required plot line ) spray the evil darker hued crowds with semi-automatic fire! ( phew! Phew! ) and the worthier richer volk are saved and rewarded.  Damn, dude!  Aren’t you glad you bought a bug out location?  Anyway, then everyone works happily ever after, all men of sturdy jaw and industrious natures, all gals both warriorly studly AND biblically compliant to their Tactical Tommy husbands  bristling with appropriately approved and Grade A stamped plastic space guns.  Jesus friggin weeps.  Again, short term thinking and planning ( the Yuppie Scum Survivalist Guru’s  might include, in the fine print far away from any ads for $5k FLIR scopes and quarter million dollar Idaho retreats, the warning to prepare for a multi-generational collapse.  Then he goes ahead and publishes a series of novels which return our survivors to near normal hereby negating the small hidden warning on the projected time line ).  The Gore Warming Refugees will just keep coming, wave after wave, and by NOT driving up in an automobile, be a bit more stealthy.  I challenge you to assume your soldiers on constant patrol will not degrade in supplies and ability very quickly after this.

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Let’s go back and revisit THE best post-apocalypse book ever to be written or that ever shall be written, amen, Lucifer’s Hammer.  For a California author(s) to avoid wish-fulfilling cars galore into the picture was a testament to his scientific and logical mind ( although there was a bit of too violent condemnation of organic farming, as well as his too enthusiastic promotion of nuclear power ).  There was a bit of read-between-the-lines of weather refugees covered here and the arrivals to the Big Money Sponsored Bug Out Location came on foot.  The various ways of keeping them from trespassing were all well and good ( such as blowing bridges ) but of course you can’t have alpine security along with a huge enough population to secure and feed everyone.  Without tractors and chemicals and greenhouse glass, the concept is not viable ( isn’t it amazing to the degree that even today over thirty years later most survivalist writers still feed directly from this books trough?  Ragnar Benson’s latest on a “self-sufficient” ethanol tractor homestead to weather the economic collapse ).  Again, the origin of another survival strategy-the quick recovery ( this time in the form of surplus energy from the nuke plant ).

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Tomorrow, finishing up, the direct conflict with the refugee waves.

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