Healthy soil and sustainable growing

["John D'hondt" <dhondt@eircom.net>]

> The people who are stockpiling years of MRE's, toilet paper, ammunition 
> and
> so forth are as alien to me as the ones who aren't doing anything at all. 
> I
> have acquaintances who say they plan to "bug out" in their remote piece of
> land until everything returns to "normal," and that they don't need to 
> learn
> skills like gardening or raising livestock because they have enough
> stockpiled food to last as long as necessary.  These people have a huge
> solar array, underground propane tanks, all the things they say they need 
> to
> live the same way they live now (house full of power-hungry appliances, in
> other words). I'm afraid they're in for a rude shock.
>
> Liz
I agree completely. After the Roman empire fell the population of Europe 
halved and it took a thousand years to crawl back out of the dark ages and 
see the population rise again. No gas tank will last that long. And it will 
be a lot worse this time since everything depends on infrastructure and 
conveniences that will no longer be there.
John