What, that's it ?
'Suit yourself ?'
Hehe...you don't get off that easily:
I'd really like to know how your approach would be more successful overall than mine would.
Where have the actions of single people ever made a damn bit of difference in this context ?
Let's say the 'big one' hits: like the comet that took out the dinos.
Your plan will only prolong the inevitable so you won't starve or freeze until your stockpile runs out.
It's by forming communities that humans survived the last ice age. By hunting in a group, primitive civilizations can bring down more calories in a year than by individuals working alone.
Don't get me wrong, I think most of the people I meet day to day are a waste of skin...but I'd still try to keep every last one of 'em alive.
Gotta bail (work) but I'll check back tonight. I'd like to hear how your approach is the best when history has shown pretty conclusively that people working together is a pretty effective way to restore a damaged infrastructure.
Again, I was never talking about being prepared for the end of civilization, as there is no way to prepare for such an event.
All I ever said was that I was prepared for a short time (6 months or so) incase of some unforeseen event.
Just long enough for things to things to come back on line and services to be available again.
Heck man, I don't claim to have a Noah's Ark over here, if the world ends, I'm throwing in my towel with the rest of you.
But I don't understand why people think it to be foolish to have things laid aside incase of need.
Be it food or money, it's good to have a little extra in case, that's all I'm saying.
I will add this though, when the last big snow storm rolled through, I was one of the few people that wasn't playing bumper cars on the way to the grocery store.
