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hodson2k9
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Post by hodson2k9 »

mobbsey wrote: Just go camping regularly with the family. Start in the Summer, and then slowly spread your outings towards the Winter. Likewise, you might start by eating food heated from tins, and then work your way towards cooking from raw ingredients over a small fire. Then bring some of those skills home -- e.g. turning the heating down and wearing some extra layers.

Handling the crises of depletion is a bit like camping... but at home!
I love camping, great idea ...... cheers!
"Unfortunately, the Fed can't print oil"
---Ben Bernake (2011)
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Post by Aurora »

mobbsey wrote:
hodson2k9 wrote:The only future I'd like is to ensure the survival of my children. Unfortunately i don't have the skills, knowledge or money to ensure that, and i doubt there's enough time left for me to learn the required information.
Just go camping regularly with the family. Start in the Summer, and then slowly spread your outings towards the Winter. Likewise, you might start by eating food heated from tins, and then work your way towards cooking from raw ingredients over a small fire. Then bring some of those skills home -- e.g. turning the heating down and wearing some extra layers.

Handling the crises of depletion is a bit like camping... but at home!
Nah, just take them to the Glastonbury festival when it's raining. A true vision of hell on earth. :D
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Post by nexus »

Correction- An expensive hell on earth.
Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Frederick Douglass
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Post by emordnilap »

Tarrel wrote:So, my question is; "What one policy could the Government adopt that would allow the citizens of the UK to manage their personal collapses effectively?"
TEQs/C&S/C&D.

I hate to repeat it here yet again (though if I don't, Biff might).

If PSers haven't already learned about and accepted the concept, what hope the majority, the crazed masses?
I experience pleasure and pains, and pursue goals in service of them, so I cannot reasonably deny the right of other sentient agents to do the same - Steven Pinker
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