Party pup, Thanks for the props but most my preparations are really just a basic fact of living in agriculturally zoned property and being a contractor with a passion for gardening.It scares my wife but I would like to do a sustainability excercise for the fun of it. Good thing we have become competent at compromise.

Fact Check on what Rustico said. That I have productive beasts of burden is kind of an exaggeration. I have two egg laying chickens and a rooster named Temeculaguy. These beasts could potentially produce animals for meat and replacements egg layers. I also have three boys who I wouldn’t hesitate to turn into farm hands.I could easily bring in livestock though.

I did sell one house during the famous FB period. I was pressured into it by the buyers themselves and I told them flat out not to do it.

I think Enorah has already mostly triumphed over what ever is coming. I can sense that from her posts.

I don’t think we can become like the other 98% of the world becasue there is not a uniform 98% out there anywhere. What is the population distribution for people living in “developed” vs. non developed countries for instance?

I think you hit on what may be the biggest change for Americans, which is a reduction of comfort and ease of access to excess, in almost all things and on the other hand constant employment to enable the getting and spending and covering of the debts incurred and/or the accumulation of great quantities of wealth that we cant take with us when we go.I know a lot of people are charitable and that I only paint the bad side of our ant farm ways here.
Anyway,there may be catastrophic occurrences that just obliterate some of us and only luck will make a difference.Some of us are going to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. We can only be reasonable prudent and ready to respond but eventually we might have to accept that It is “a good day to die”.Anticipating every frightful possibility is a waste of time and probably dangerous. Tennis anyone?

Other than the possibility or radical warfare which I am adamantly against, but which also usually passes,I think, the worse case scenario is that many of us temporarily or permanently face living standards and access to opportunity that gradually becomes more on par with Mexico.Maybe this occurs over generations. Like you also said, maybe some good would come out of that. There are a lot of intelligent people with not much opportunity in the world, who have to get by with less success on the career ladder less gross consumption and the prestige many of us pretend that it brings, but they do O.K. other wise. In some ways they set good examples for how much the same some of the best things in life would be.