PEEv2c6part2 ( post 2 of 2 today )
How Much Food Should
You Store, Continued
The Agricultural
Revolution was probably a continuation of beer ( thanks again, you
sexy beast John Wilder ), necessitated by climate change. And it
very quickly turned into a military technology. Suddenly it was all,
go big or go home. Since that time demographics was destiny. The
womb was militarized. You hump like rabbits to overwhelm your foes
or they did it better, to you. There was no getting off that
treadmill, if you were hooked into the global centralized
agricultural empire model ( mountain folk exempted ).
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The price you paid was
environmental degradation. Again, this was guaranteed. And that is
why empires kept moving around. The denuded areas needed to recover
before they could return to rule, after being newly subjugated. IF
they were lucky. If unlucky, you were Mussolini unable to recover
the glory that was Rome, seventeen or so centuries later, unable to
colonize Africa. How embarrassing. Or, you were Greece, even longer
since empire, a sad meat sack violated by Goldman Saks economically,
your lands only suitable for sunbathing fat northern Europeans.
Colonization was nothing more than empire overseas rather than next
door, largely the spoils of improved metal working to accompany
gunpowder.
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Empires turned to
carbon fuels to expand their reach and control, the British getting a
quarter of the globe and the US about half, because of coal and oil
respectively, but in the end it is still about agriculture. The
fuels merely replaced workers with machines, far more efficiently.
Then they became artificial fertilizer. The surplus mostly went to
luxury and decadence, and to allowing the entire globe-not just the
victors-to overpopulate. What could go wrong?
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The problem with
agriculture today is NOT Gore Warming. It is population overwhelming
the food supply. A few greedy humpers are enriching themselves by
feeding the enemy breeding machines, as Roman elites imported
barbarians for profit until realizing too late these bastards wanted
what you had, and they could take it. The rich today think Christian
abortions ( a sorrier site I've never seen than celebrating Grrl
Power advocates after Ireland allowed abortions ) and subsidized
Muzzy births won't bite them on the ass. What a bunch of humping
idiots, studying economics and math to better work for Red Shield,
rather than history.
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And a HUGE profitable
industry was dismantling the ten thousand year old Agricultural
infrastructure. All that dirt cheap suburban farmland, driven down
in price from the robots taking over the industry ( plus, from
centralization, railroads, etc ), turned from farmland to factory
workers homes ( then, the factories left after doing their damage.
Our elites are as violent and deadly as kings of old, just once
removed from the action ). This, and that model applied to Turd
World countries ( no private land to farm, live in the cities as we
mechanize commodities ), effectively ruined agriculture as we ever
knew it.
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Now, centralizing
farming isn't TERRIBLE, in and of itself. Rome was dependent on
Egyptian wheat, especially after drought conditions finished off
marginal European farms ( denuded by population pressures ). The
problem is when the transportation breaks down. And that was usually
the case of JUST the empire at present. It didn't effect the entire
globe, as they stuck with the suburban farms surrounding the urban
area model.
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( The Inca's had a
large transportation network. They saw themselves through local
declines with a diverse potato crop program, different varieties
suitable to different elevations and locations. One weather event or
blight in one area was supported by another. In their case,
transportation was a force multiplier rather than a vulnerability.
They had a peasant supported road network, more for food than war.
They didn't run out of road maintenance workers when slaves numbers
fell through lack of conquest. Pretty smart dudes, but smallpox
doesn't much care about smart )
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Over half the globe
lives in cities. A LOT of rural folks are just machine supervisors
on farms. The farms no longer there to supply cities are dependent
on the cities themselves. The entire ten thousand years of
centralized farming has no more infrastructure besides oil
dependence. We dismantled the traditional arrangement for short term
profit. When children became too expensive because 90% of the
population could no longer feed their kids for free ( without money
), we became even MORE dependent on oil.
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All those nasty twats
campaigning in the early twentieth century to “liberate” women
through the abolition of child birth did exactly one thing. They
stuck a knife in the back of western civilization underpinned by
Christianity ( the Papist whores aided and abided ). In essence they
handed the mantle over to Muzzies and other groups unencumbered by
progressiveness. As the oil goes, so goes most of the globes
agriculture, hamstrung by the lack of transportation. Does it seem
odd that most likely the Reverse Reconquest of Europe will be
successful?
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Do you think that
perhaps some primitive tribal group won't start farming, on a low
tech basis? If you think White Hippies will do it, perhaps you
forget that most Muzzies are already experienced warriors. And far
from pampered and spoiled. But be that as it may, the globe will
die-off, for the most part, as oil supplies fall too far to sustain
the infrastructure supporting the current food paradigm. Got wheat?
I assure you, you will need a LOT more than one years worth.
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You must get through
multiple years of die-off, which comes AFTER economic collapse
necessitating using some of those food stores, then many years of warfare
setting in place new governments, not to mention normal weather
related crop declines AND a learning curve being a full time food
producer. If you cannot see the value of industrial agricultural
mass oil age produced grains, stocked deep so as to offer a five to
ten year stockpile, you are already on the Darwin Award list. You
have already failed Malthusian Economics 101. You are a zombie, dead
minion walking.
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Start with a minimum of
three years of food ( if it is JUST wheat for now, better than
nothing, baseline of calories secured. Improve later. Calories
FIRST ). Five years shortly after that. That should be your
minimum, NOT just one year. You are welcome.
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Merry Christmas back at ya Jim. Hope all is hunky dory with you and yours.
ReplyDeleteI would just like a few more reasons why someone would like to have that deep, deep larder.
When a die off develops, people are going to scrounge for anything that resembles a grocery store item. Tomatoes and watermelons aren't going to stand a chance. Root crops like beets, carrots and potatoes might, if not grown in rows, but scattered in plots. Either way, tending crops will you a target, so skipping that year probably would be prudent. At best, you will just chop and drop whatever is growing there to give you better fire lanes and to improve fertility for the following year.
Insect populations will explode after the common use of pesticides stop. This will also be a good reason to skip the first year and maybe the second, until that stabilizes.
You mentioned the learning curve, but soil conditioning is a factor too. Even if you strictly permaculture, it takes time for the adjustments to work, figure 3 to 5 years.
Thank you for expanding. I hadn't quite thought in those details. Good addition.
DeleteExcellent reasoning Wrenchr2 - I'm trying to grow food. It's been, how shall we say? It's been a steep learning curve. So far it's been unproductive. I suspect my soil has a lot to do with it and it's an area I'm working on. Chop and drop is very sound strategy for the future.
DeleteMy soil fertility is coming on with compost, worm farm and bokashi. I get veggies for my compost from the fruit and veg shop. I could get a lot but I'm lazy (efficient? I don't go out of my way to source it)
It's not lazy, but calorie conservation
Delete"They stuck a knife in the back of western civilization underpinned by Christianity ( the Papist whores aided and abided)." I am confused. I don't think that I am carrying water for the Catholic Church here, but the church's official position is against birth control--and it is widely ignored around the globe. If Catholics didn't engage in birth control, there would be a helluva lot more Christians around the globe. Would the Irish rule the world?
ReplyDeleteWell, the churches official position is that their priests are not molesters. But I hear what you are saying. No, they aid and abet by pushing for cultural changes, in PC form. Working , independent women, muzzy immigration, unlimited Latino immigration, etc.
DeleteI was reading the other day that Norway, the country that nearly starved to death under German occupation in the Second World War, built huge grain silo's to ensure they'd fare better if ever confronted with interruption to food supplies. Well the article said that they sold the grain and turned them into student accommodation.
ReplyDeleteMaybe students are on the menu?
And the students are probably dark meat. Just saying. Some relief agencies stopped stockpiling grain, and just put money aside as their "reserves". It will bite everyone on the ass, soon
DeleteOpening three paragraphs should be required to be understood in every high school. Perfection.
ReplyDeleteAre you trying to corrupt today's youth?
DeleteSocrates was killed for that! :)
DeleteThat still didn't help the empire, though :)
DeleteExactly.
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