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North America After the Collapse
On Sun, 18 Jan 2004 07:02:33 GMT, Gunner
wrote: On 18 Jan 2004 04:37:13 GMT, (Frank White) wrote: In article , says... 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) (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. 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 Why would a live by the skin of your teeth existence be preferable to staying in your own neighborhood or town and working together with your neighbors and friends? alanc is obsessed with the idea of running for the hills and living off the land. In fact he's claimed that's what he and an unspecified group have already done, setting up a defensive parameter that includes boobytraps and poison gas generators, as well as trying to drive any neighbors away by poisoning their water and killing their animals. There are doubts as to his sanity... Doubts? Doubts? The dude is a ****ing loon. A Walter Mitty consumed by the Tarnsman of Gor books. Oddly enough, I'm watcing The Secret Life of Walter Mitty right now. Hipockita, hipockita (sp?). Sue |
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