Kunstler, the author of The Long Emergency (Great book about peak oil and US lifestyles) offers a list of 10 ways to prepare oneself for the post-oil era. My favorite suggestion is value-added agriculture- he specifically mentions making wine and cheese, but I've always thought I'd make a good beer. And in a crashed society, people will want beer. Yup- that's my double extra secret plan. Lexacat's Hefeweissen- look for it in your post-apocalyptic pubs!
"Life in the USA will have to become much more local, and virtually all the activities of everyday life will have to be re-scaled. You can state categorically that any enterprise now supersized is likely to fail -- everything from the federal government to big corporations to huge institutions. If you can find a way to do something practical and useful on a smaller scale than it is currently being done, you are likely to have food in your cupboard and people who esteem you. An entire social infrastructure of voluntary associations, co-opted by the narcotic of television, needs to be reconstructed. Local institutions for care of the helpless will have to be organized. Local politics will be much more meaningful as state governments and federal agencies slide into complete impotence. Lots of jobs here for local heroes."
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