Post by woodyz on Jun 13, 2015 9:09:04 GMT -7
It doesn't matter if you believe man is causing the planet to warm or if it is an evolutionary cycle returning
Science using tree rings, core drills and whatever, show that the planet has been warmer before and the oceans have been deeper. We know the existing desert of N. Africa was once a rain forest.
Time changes everything in cycles, its just the length of the cycle and the change it creates on the landscape that is unsure. Who is to say the desert will return to a jungle and the US will be split by an ocean.
Just because it existed that way doesn't mean it will again
However one thing holds true and can be considered a fact.
Everything changes, change is constant only time is relevant.
When will change happen? How long before change creates a difference? How long does change last.
It really doesn't matter why, how or even when?
What matters is that you accept it and as much as you can, in a manner you can control you make yourself aware that it is a fact and you prepare for it as best you can.
Another known is that change as it is referred to here, comes slow and gradual, but the effects of the change occurring may not.
Examples: Drought/flood/hurricane/tornado/snow/ice and/or extremes of them all
For the most part things you already prep for (but mostly for the aftermath and recovery)
The preparation required for global change as referenced here is more long term and more mitigation rather than reaction.
I don't mean you should try and eliminate what is coming, in my personal opinion it is coming regardless of what we do.
I mean as you build or instal storm windows or shelters before the storm. In other words get ready now for what you will need later.
AT THE SAME TIME I DO NOT BELIEVE MOST OF US WILL EVEN BE AROUND FOR THE EXTREME CHANGES THAT MIGHT COME
So why bother?
Most of us have a family in some capacity or expect to. The prep and mitigation you can do now is to accumulate the knowledge and the planning related to the events your children or your children's children may face. These are not physical supplies or storm windows. These are books/information on growing food with 1" of rain a year, or in the water. Plans for ice storms and desert survival.
Our world is diverse enough that there already exist plans and processes to deal with extreme conditions that do exist and therefore may exist in the future. Its the location that may change, not the event.
We and our generations of the future have only existed (for the most part) in a very limited environment due to our short life span. What we consider "normal" may be no such thing and prepping for Antarctica or The Sierra in South Carolina is the farthest from our mind and from being on the minds of our future generations.
So nut shell bottom line
Acquire the knowledge of survival in any of the existing conditions that exist on the planet now. Books and manuals and volumes of information exists for improving the living conditions and capabilities of people in extreme situations. Find the information and save it in a format that your future generation can use to increase their chances of survival when they have to face the changes we will not.
Not assume the information will be available then. Don't assume the people in the future will gradually acclimate themselves and their abilities without information from the past (ie; NOW) now is the past tomorrow.
Science using tree rings, core drills and whatever, show that the planet has been warmer before and the oceans have been deeper. We know the existing desert of N. Africa was once a rain forest.
Time changes everything in cycles, its just the length of the cycle and the change it creates on the landscape that is unsure. Who is to say the desert will return to a jungle and the US will be split by an ocean.
Just because it existed that way doesn't mean it will again
However one thing holds true and can be considered a fact.
Everything changes, change is constant only time is relevant.
When will change happen? How long before change creates a difference? How long does change last.
It really doesn't matter why, how or even when?
What matters is that you accept it and as much as you can, in a manner you can control you make yourself aware that it is a fact and you prepare for it as best you can.
Another known is that change as it is referred to here, comes slow and gradual, but the effects of the change occurring may not.
Examples: Drought/flood/hurricane/tornado/snow/ice and/or extremes of them all
For the most part things you already prep for (but mostly for the aftermath and recovery)
The preparation required for global change as referenced here is more long term and more mitigation rather than reaction.
I don't mean you should try and eliminate what is coming, in my personal opinion it is coming regardless of what we do.
I mean as you build or instal storm windows or shelters before the storm. In other words get ready now for what you will need later.
AT THE SAME TIME I DO NOT BELIEVE MOST OF US WILL EVEN BE AROUND FOR THE EXTREME CHANGES THAT MIGHT COME
So why bother?
Most of us have a family in some capacity or expect to. The prep and mitigation you can do now is to accumulate the knowledge and the planning related to the events your children or your children's children may face. These are not physical supplies or storm windows. These are books/information on growing food with 1" of rain a year, or in the water. Plans for ice storms and desert survival.
Our world is diverse enough that there already exist plans and processes to deal with extreme conditions that do exist and therefore may exist in the future. Its the location that may change, not the event.
We and our generations of the future have only existed (for the most part) in a very limited environment due to our short life span. What we consider "normal" may be no such thing and prepping for Antarctica or The Sierra in South Carolina is the farthest from our mind and from being on the minds of our future generations.
So nut shell bottom line
Acquire the knowledge of survival in any of the existing conditions that exist on the planet now. Books and manuals and volumes of information exists for improving the living conditions and capabilities of people in extreme situations. Find the information and save it in a format that your future generation can use to increase their chances of survival when they have to face the changes we will not.
Not assume the information will be available then. Don't assume the people in the future will gradually acclimate themselves and their abilities without information from the past (ie; NOW) now is the past tomorrow.
