Sometimes people make the oversight of thinking AlienWorld is only about peak oil. This is not the case however, as much of the content presented relates to personal and communal resilience in diverse forms. In future posts, I will endeavour to present some of these various forms of resilience.
By resilience, I mean a progression of persistently adapting and evolving yourself internally as well as your external situation by strengthening your independence of the mainstream system. It’s almost an intellectual and spiritual awakening of sorts as the process itself puts you on a different path to the herd.
This path is one of self-awakening and self-sufficiency as difficult questions must be answered and then acted upon:
What happens if a global pandemic starts to kill millions?
What if there’s an energy crisis and the power goes out for a month?
What if a massive natural disaster hits my area?
What if there’s geopolitical shifts and war breaks out at home?
What if the currency collapses?
What if the supermarket shelves stay empty for 3 months?
In this specific case, we’re exploring resilience through stockpiling supplies. In my own situation, I have thus far stockpiled food and equipment for the past year. Some of my supplies are pictured below and include:
Water Bottles (3)
Non-Battery Powered Torch (1)
Candle Powered Lantern with candles (1)
Binoculars (1)
Rope (2)
Compass & Maps (3)
Multi-Tools (3)
Personal Survival Kits for each family member (3)
Titanium Outdoor Pots and Pans (5)
Personal First Aid Kits (3)
Axe (1)
Knives (2)
Pliers (1)
Water Purification Tablets (300)
Outdoor stove Burner and Fuel Bottles (2)
Sleeping Bags (3)
Survival Tabs (10 Bottles, 1800 tablets)
Fishing Tackle & Rods (2)
Portable Outdoor Woodfire BBQ (1)
Tents (2)
Water Storage Canisters (3)
Backpacks (2)
Camping Chairs (3)
Outdoor Collapsible Storage Unit (1)
Outdoor Cutlery Set (1)
Various Tinned Foods (90)
Various Freeze Dried Foods (60)
Various Instant Noodles (150)
As of the time of writing, my family could survive three months if we had to bunker down at home and not leave the property at all. This is dependent on rainfall as I have not yet obtained a desalinator or water fresh water tank for the house. These things are just around the corner, though.
If we had to leave the house and go bush for a while in order to wait out some nightmare situation, we’d probably last about the same amount of time as we have invested in good quality equipment. The tinned food would have to stay behind but the survival tabs and freeze-dried food can be carried and the element of fishing would possibly make up for the missing tins.
Either way, I’m not suggesting here that I’d like to go bush for three months or even bunker down in the house. I’d much prefer my life to stay the way it is forever. The point of resilience is accepting the fact that life will certainly not stay the way it is forever and along the way, it may even slip into a crisis here and there swiftly and without warning.
As more and more of us populate the planet and mercilessly consume her finite resources and poison what’s left, our immediate environment will continue to degenerate and become less and less stable. This implies change, instability, loss of security, scarcity of essentials and recalibration of the human relationship with nature itself. Peak oil doesn’t even have to happen for this to occur. It’s already happening and there’s not a lot we can do about it.
To a certain extent, our reliance on big government and big business has made us weak and robotic. The general population does not like to think or better said, be put in a situation that requires in depth thought. We just want all pleasure and no pain without giving anything for it and on top of that, we want it now, not in three minutes or else we want to see a manager!
So when adversity strikes hard and fast, many of us cannot make sense of what’s happening if the safety mechanisms around us begin to break down. It’s actually quite frightening just how reliant we have become on a system which itself, relies on infinite growth in a finite environment. Most of us simply don’t give a shit about such things, though.
The status quo will go unchanged forever here in Australia. I’m sure Darius thought the same thing before Alexander rode through the blue gates of Babylon. I suppose the Romans thought the same, as did the Egyptians and the Aztecs. I know, things are different now, that sort of thing doesn’t happen anymore…
Our government has just released a white paper on military spending and build-up. It seems we’re soon to add many more top shelf fighter jets, submarines, surface multi-purpose war ships and troop carriers to our humble arsenal. Our leaders are coming to the conclusion that the U.S will be replaced by China in the coming decades. This is the mother of all geopolitical shifts and will have far-reaching and possibly chaotic implications for many countries as the possibility of mass change is thrust upon us by the new boss.
There’s enough evidence to conclude that we’re in for uncertain times at best in the coming decades. Even someone as outright stupid as Joanne Greer can grasp that one. So resilience through stockpiling is by no means a stand-alone solution. It is however, a spoke in the wheel of resilience, which when reinforced by other spokes and operates freely as one wheel, allows the option and opportunity to keep rolling when TSHTF and your up to your neck in it.
Happy hoarding!
Michael
Recent Comments