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COLLAPSE TOOL


If you were to mosey on over to the 5-10-11 posting from Ure over at Urban Survival, http://urbansurvival.com/week.htm you would find yet another timely warning over future grain supplies. Simply, all this wet weather is significantly decreasing both planting and sprouting. And not crap we can do without such as asparagus but GRAIN, the staff of life and such ( previously, crop failures in the US saw imported grain take up the shortage, but there ain’t nowhere that isn’t also seeing failures ). You have been warned, and if I hear any whining and bitching about not being able to squeeze $36 from the budget to bucket-up a hundred pounds of wheat I shall soil myself with a bloody discharge. If you can pay Billy-Bob the Banker to live in a sheetrock shack and drive an SUV you can afford storage food. Actually, if you live beyond walking distance from me, go ahead and NOT prepare. Choke on your worthless dollars for all I care. Damn, you buy them books, send them to school ( even if that ain’t all that much fun with your kid being shipped fifty miles away so they can be the only cracker in an all black school, which to me would be a signal to move to a home-school state- nothing against individual oppressed minorities, but as a crowd they can be dangerous- witness the recent white beating from blacks as the black employees cheered it on rather than calling the po-po ) and still they don’t learn a thing.

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The Cunuck couple that got lost in the hills ( there ain’t much in the way of woods, other than areas of overgrown bushes ) up this way in Elko Nevada has everyone tittering about GPS sucking, or the advice for BOB’s or to stay with the vehicle. My take on it was that Elko is a GREAT place to hide as the world falls apart. Remember that rich pilot that got lost on the other side of the state? The search and rescue to find him uncovered other plane crashes that had happened decades ago. This is a pretty good area to ride out the die-off. I’m so friggin sorry we don’t have lush forests or fertile agricultural land. Which of course would NEVER be a destination of local city folks nearby. Who do you think rode out the collapse of the Roman Empire better, the farmer or the desert nomad? Never mind, go weed your asparagus patch.

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Because I love all of you unnaturally, I keep doing things to benefit you even though I know better ( see above ). I set my alarm back another twenty minutes so I can actually get something done in the morning before I clock in at work. Today I downloaded the last year and a half of Bison articles, which means if some asshat makes a fuss to Google about politically incorrect content on the blog and the blog gets pulled, I haven’t lost anything. If that ever happens, just remember Bison Press Dot Com. Write the damn thing down. My web site. That is the official home of Bison. This blog is just a distribution channel.

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Despite our caterwauling about Peak Oil, man has overreached his energy supply from almost day one. And despite rich whores like Al Gore racing around in fuel wasting jets warning the rest of us to stop using so much energy so he himself doesn’t run out, climate change is nothing new. There is a strong argument that agriculture itself significantly altered the climate ( mass forest clearing, burning the trees ). It seems our species is just like all the rest. Overpopulate, draw down resources, die-off until an equilibrium is reached. We are smart enough to develop tools to kill ourselves more efficiently but clearly not smart enough to see this. Tools are merely mans way of manipulating the energy system. “Catching Fire” by Richard Wrangham says that fire allowed early Homo Erectus to evolve by shrinking the jaw, teeth and intestines. More calories could go towards using the brain ( I’m thinking, if I remember correctly, we use something like 20% of consumed calories to keep our computer running- well, up to a certain point because fat pukes ain’t thinking any extra or they’d stop stuffing in pizza ). With a better running brain we can use more tools. Evidently cooked food allows extra calories to be extracted from food ( explaining the universal craving for hot food even in the tropics, and a good fun filled fact for raw food advocates- although if they are a fruitarian I don’t think this applies ). One great tool is a knife or knife on a stick, as the edge multiplies the force behind it. Draft animals were another great advance. They create human food out of waste plants, allow deserts to be inhabited, or colder area by using their fur/wool. And of course quadruple the area being planted in temperate areas.

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But fire has always been fundamental. Not only does it make available food perform better calorie wise, you can smelt ore to make much better tools. Or, heat your body in winter which would otherwise take food calories. So fire has been a necessary tool from day one. Which meant that running out of fire, whether from trees or coal or petrol, runs down your civilization. Look at the coming collapse from lack of fire this way. When the forest was all chopped down, ancient civilizations didn’t have enough dung to burn to keep everyone alive. Dung is a lower energy content and if it goes into the fire instead of back into the fields, you start seeing crop failures. The current population was built up dependent on wood energy. Without wood, they collapsed. With 7 billion folks being raised on oil, they can’t survive on solar or wind energy as it has a far lower energy density. We will collapse without enough fire for the current population. We use tools to fill up the place, and collapse is a tool to depopulate us down to sustainability levels again. Slow decline isn’t how Mother Nature gets its overpopulation back under control.

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