On Sun, 18 Jan 2004 00:28:29 GMT, Alan Connor wrote:



In North America at present, including Canada, there are about 500,000 square
miles of mountain forests that are removed from major population centers
and in a climate that is cold-temperate or better.

Assuming 300,000,000 people in the U.S. and Canada, and that 5% of those
people can make it to, or are already in, the Rockies (etc.), that gives these
areas a post-Collapse population density of approximately 30 people per
square mile, or about 20 acres apiece, back-to-back.

(your neighbor will be able to hit your house with a thrown rock from their
front porch)

So, you are saying that after the collapse, my neighbors biceps are
going to mutate into such freakishly large proportions that they will
be able to throw rocks 20 acres?


(these areas include a lot of grasslands, too, but are predominantly forested)



In these conditions, only a survival group that can remain inconspicuous will
have a chance of avoiding continual battles with refugees or roving bandits,
or continually running from them, and the only way to accomplish this is to
have a plant-based lifestyle.

Says you. I happen to disagree entirely and I count your opinion as
much less important then my own. Then again, I am planning for a much
more likely event than the total and permanent collapse of
civilization.


If you HAVE to run, then you had better know your wild edible plants, of
which there are more than 1800 species in North America, because trapping
and hunting will SERIOUSLY slow you down...


AC
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