I had a dream the other night in which there was famine. Fuel was not available, and the land was barren. This dream affected me greatly because of our current state of world affairs, and the way our politicians are hell-bent on national destruction. I hope it does not come to this, but if we are indeed being thrown straight into third-world status, we need to prepare.
Most people I have come across that realize the need to prepare for the coming economic crash emphasize purchasing survival equipment and stocking up on food. But what do you do when the food you have stored is gone? This is a question that not many have tackled, and one that needs to be answered.
The answer is that the best survival equipment you can have at your disposal is a basic set of skills. This skill-set should contain things such as how to grow your own food and how to apply basic medical attention to yourself and those around you.
When the grocery store shelves are either bare or the food on them is so high-priced that only the rich can afford it, we need to know how to survive off the land. When access to health care is not possible, we need to be able to take care of basic health-care needs ourselves.
The Surviving the Middle Class Crash website is dedicated to providing people with information they can use to learn skills needed to survive in a post-crash world. Learning these skills takes time and soon, if the indicators we are seeing are correct, we will need to know how to apply these skills. The time to start learning is when you still have the capability to brush off the mistakes and start again without serious consequences.
There are many links on the site dedicated to growing healthy food. This morning I posted a link devoted to healthcare that I received from a friend, Carroll, titled “Where There Is No Doctor.” Thank you Carroll, for this timely submission. This is a free downloadable e-book from the Hesperian Foundation. Here is an excerpt from the introduction:
It [the book] has been written in the belief that:
· Health care is not only everyone’s right, but everyone’s responsibility.
· Informed self-care should be the main goal of any health program or
activity.
· Ordinary people provided with clear, simple information can prevent and
treat most common health problems in their own homes—earlier, cheaper,
and often better than can doctors.
· Medical knowledge should not be the guarded secret of a select few, but
should be freely shared by everyone.
· People with little formal education can be trusted as much as those with a
lot. And they are just as smart.
· Basic health care should not be delivered, but encouraged.
Some of the book’s instructions may not apply, or are invalid such as any referral to Sodium Fluoride as being good for the teeth. However, the bulk of the material is valuable, so please use common sense when figuring out how to apply the health-care methods proposed in this book.
Again, and I cannot emphasize strongly enough; we need to be prepared, and we need to start now. Stocking up on food and supplies is only a temporary fix. When the food and supplies run out, we need to know how to replace them. Learning how to grow your own food and take care of basic medical needs are necessary survival skills that we will all need to develop or simply go without.
Here is a link to the free e-book “Where There Is No Doctor.”
June 12, 2008 at 9:11 pm
Your points are right on target. Sure, storage food will run out, but how many don’t have any at all and won’t bother to get any? I know a lot of people are living on the edge, but getting food and supplies can happen slowly and simultaneously with building of survival skills. Geting a book like When There’s No Doctor is an excellent idea.
John
http://www.destinysurvival.com
June 13, 2008 at 3:42 pm
Hi John,
I am hoping to give people information to develop skills to grow and store their own food. If you grow your own, you know what you are getting. Grow enough, and you can feed yourself and your family, while drying and canning for storage.
Went to your site, and you have some very useful info. Thanks for the visit!
Barb
June 16, 2008 at 1:47 pm
Barb,
Thanks for visiting my site. It’s good to know there are others pulling the wagon in the same direction, so to speak.
John
June 24, 2008 at 1:20 pm
There’s an interesting book out from the 90’s titled “Mass Dreams of the Future”, by Waumbach and Snow, two PhD’s who took 2,500 different people from USA, Canada and Europe into the “future” through hypnosis. These 2,500 people (statistically relevant) all told pretty much the same story. All of them said there were far fewer people here. All of them fit into four neat groups. 1)underground or covered cities,2) living in outer space wearing synthetic clothing and eating synthetic food, 3) post holocaust style nomads, 4) spiritual communities. (thank you, God)
Now there will be a lot of readers who will snub this information..yet, 2,500 cases is no joke and even though the future is always changing…Our present situation is not looking too good.
And everything we are doing now determines where we will be in the future. Stock up on food, yes! Learn new skills in the realm of farming/ranching, Yes! Learn to ride a horse, or drive a team, Yes! Get out of the city, Yes! The future for people in cities is not looking good, even as more people are moving into cities because of fuel costs.. I think we should be learning new skills and getting away from the cities.
Look, what are basics? Food and shelter, right? What else is there? Education can always be home taught, medicine is and has been a joke for too long. We are where we are in medicine as a result of war. Lets stop killing each other and start living to help each other.
I totally support growing our own food, teaching our own and creating totally new communities that function without drugs, and with out money in a higher more conscious manner. Learning the skills of healing is not that hard…children can do it.