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WHO’S ON FIRST? 2

Food First, because housing gets easier with salvage and conquest.  Protection gets easier as everyone else uses up their ammunition while you hid and conserved yours.  But food gets harder as we go along.  Every day some selfish pig pops out another screaming starving spawn in another craphole already a failed state ( Africa, middle east, California ).  And every day some greedy pig paves over more farmland or turns it into ethanol, and there is less land to feed the new people.  The marginal farmland in arid regions ( some parts of India, Arizona and California, alternating years with Texas or Pakistan ) begin failing as the once constant water supply does.

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This is not to say that as time goes on you won’t see any issues with ammunition or construction supplies.  You will.  Failing systems see failing trade.  Just as the end of both the Greeks and the Romans started with soil degradation, moved on to currency debasement and finished off with the shutdown of imports, so will the American empire fail as she cannot get the oil needed to grow her own food ( the soil is already crap ), irrigate or transport the centralized food system ( grain belt to the two coasts ).  The end of other commodities being traded goes along with that.

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But while you should be already self-sufficient in defense, if for no other reason than it almost looks like the supreme moronic retards of the universe might actually try for gun control, and shelter is easy enough as long as you lower your expectations, our food production system gets worse every year.  You can stock up on ammo and build shelter now, and in theory that is a One Off event that will last you forever, food is a daily concern.  All other human endeavors throughout history, to include the need to reproduce, takes a back seat to eating everyday.  Even nature agrees.  You can hump until your rib showing protruding belly yellowed eyed famine ravaged body no long has the energy for it, but long before that the female will abort a fetus if she is malnourished.

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Every day that draws us closer to the die-off degrades the soil that much more.  Erodes the soil that much more.  Saturates the soil with more poisons from Bayer ( I think it was the German pharma giant that bought Monsanto ).  Sprinkles magic unicorn dust from Fukishima.  Every day the soil we need to grow crops locally in the near future is paved over and turned into McMansions for the very same humpers that are generating mere pennies of profit per ecological disaster, but need every penny they can get to send their offspring to college to learn the plundering trade.

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And, has everyone forgotten how important weather used to be?  None of us farm, and all of us luxuriate on the couch in our Hello Kitty underwear staring at 500 channels of commercials, in the middle of winter, eating Yak Testicle flavored Dorito’s.  We start our SUV remotely in the morning and by the time we get from the door to the car our bare legs between flip-flops and shorts barely register the real temperature.  Weather, whether caused by Al Gore or by Sol, or by the Alien Overlord Green Lizard Gods, is changing to a routine of extreme events.  Drought followed by flood, polar vortexes randomly thrown in.  Does that bode well for your food supply to come on the farm?

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Once you get an ammo supply, the odds never change.  You’ll either live to use it or you won’t.  Probably, “won’t”.  Preppers seem to have a rather casual hankering of odds and probabilities ( I know my own personal odds are bad.  But knowing is only half the battle, Joe ).  If your shelter is adequate for your climate ( as opposed to adequate for On Grid ), in theory you are insulated enough to not exhaust your nearby wood supply.  To which, I might add, you would be well served to do the historical opposite and gather the fuel from furthest away FIRST, rather than last.  You’ll have metal tools and mechanical conveyances ( bicycle, wheel barrow with synthetic rubber inflated tire ) and extra calories to do so.  Then, as you lose body fat, and food storage, and transportation, you’ll have the nearer supply.  Just saying.

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But your food supply situation just grows worse.  The soil starts out worse than now.  The weather has gotten worse.  And you keep depleting the soil further since you didn’t store enough grain.  Nobody starves as they improve the soil condition.  They keep drawing down its fertility so as to keep eating.  Even if you are religious about adding back to the soil, you are still starting out at a deficit, and you need the extra inputs to be available to begin with.  Nightsoil isn’t a great solution, nor is it enough in most cases.  Almost without exception, farming is a long term negative energy supply.

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If you are not in a river valley that deposits minerals from upstream ( or the equivalent with volcanic ash ), you don’t do net soil fertility ( even the biochar solution needs wood input ).  With enough food storage, you can wait while you build up your soil again, and have enough surplus land to continue to feed your farmland extra organics.  If you don’t, you rapidly deplete already hurt soil.  Most of the US rural South, the one place with extra water and vegetation, was depleted centuries ago from corn and tobacco, and if used today is dead soil saturated with artificial fertilizer and pesticides ( plus, might be dependent on Corps Of Engineers mega-projects for flood control ).

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With the future clear aspect of population growth and increasing idiocy going hand in hand, have plenty of ammunition.  With the lack of petroleum inputs and grid power, build appropriately.  And with the problematic food future clear as a bell, don’t skimp of food.  Then store more.  Then add some to that.  You might not consider wheat a suitable apocalypse food, but once that is all you have you’ll think, what a wonderful thing to have.  For the price of one case of soup with marginal calories, you can have over three months supply of calories.  Come famine and farm failure, you’ll wonder why you ever questioned it.

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