Preparedness for when

Doveling

Fantastic explanation :T

So will the weather patterns around the world alter in most countries causing extremes which aren't usual for that country?
e.g drought in California (or is that happening sort of artificially by making golf courses in desert?)

GreyQueen

Doveling wrote: »

Fantastic explanation :T

So will the weather patterns around the world alter in most countries causing extremes which aren't usual for that country?
e.g drought in California (or is that happening sort of artificially by making golf courses in desert?)

Southern California (and the entire south-west) is just reverting to the normal climate for that region, which is desert with a few scrubby plants, with some small trees along water courses. This has been the norm for that area with the twentieth century being an exceptionally wet spell, the wettest for a thousand years.

The south-western US is historically arid, and there have been acute civilisation-destroying droughts there before. The indigenous people known to us as the Anasazi (we don't know what they called themselves, this name is derived from the Navajo word for enemy ancestors) lived in multi-story dwellings in towns and had a sophisticated society in Arizona, New Mexico, Utah and Colorado. Their society was already on the back foot due to acute drought when the ancestors of the Navajo and the Apaches moved into the area from the north. There wasn't enough water for the settled town lifestyle when the climate changed, but there was sufficient for the nomads.

Those arid regions cannot sustainably support the population there at present and will probably have to be abandoned. If I was an American and living in those regions, I would be giving serious consideration to moving asap. If your principal wealth is tied in property, you want to be one of the first to exit, not one of the last. People who hang on too long will be destitute, and may be unwelcome when they try to relocate to other regions.

What's worried me since I learned about it is the Younger Dryas, which came on in about a dozen years, according to data gathered from pollen samples in lake sediments, inc in Ireland. Just think about it; an ice age of over a thousand year duration which came on in the space of one human childhood. How the hell do you prepare for that?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Younger_Dryas

boultdj

Doveling wrote: »

Used some home grown salad leaves last night. Small tubs of herbs coming on well. Am researching productive cottage gardens and what goes well with what. I need flowers to feed my soul.:)

Can feed body and soul with edible flowers such as nasturtiums,day lilies, chive flowers and the like.

Frugalsod

Doveling wrote: »

Fantastic explanation :T

So will the weather patterns around the world alter in most countries causing extremes which aren't usual for that country?
e.g drought in California (or is that happening sort of artificially by making golf courses in desert?)

You will get more extreme weather more often. So flash floods, longer droughts hotter summers and even colder winters. Yet some will still treat this as proof that global climate change is a hoax.

Penny-Wise_4

I subscribe to "Jas. Townsend and Son, Inc." on Youtube - it's mainly about cooking recipes from the 18th century (good for learning how to cook over a fire). They've just started a series of videos on historical preserving techniques - I thought some of you might be interested:-

Preserving eggs:- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUYgguMz1qI

ALIBOBSY

Doveling wrote: »

Used some home grown salad leaves last night. Small tubs of herbs coming on well. Am researching productive cottage gardens and what goes well with what. I need flowers to feed my soul.:)

Using lots of homemade salad and herbs here too. I grew some winter density lettuce the last of which are lovely big heads now because of the early sowing. Strawbs are pumping out too, it's great isn't it .

Regarding flowers its suprising how many flowers are edible as well as good for bees and looking pretty.

Ali x

moneyistooshorttomention

Only thing is that, as regards the daylilies, that would be one edible flower it might be best to avoid - as I gather they are more than a little invasive.

Frugalsod

Penny-Wise wrote: »

I subscribe to "Jas. Townsend and Son, Inc." on Youtube - it's mainly about cooking recipes from the 18th century (good for learning how to cook over a fire). They've just started a series of videos on historical preserving techniques - I thought some of you might be interested:-

Preserving eggs:- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUYgguMz1qI

My only concerns with trying to live round open fires is that there is simply not enough firewood for 7 billion of us to maintain such lifestyles.

Though I do think that there is a huge amount to be said for old techniques which have solved all the problems that we could face.

moneyistooshorttomention

I shall watch those videos with interest - but...yep...there wouldn't be enough firewood for 7 billion of us. There isn't enough of anything really for that many people - hence ersatz new foods (like quorn for instance) and hence the drive for using chemicals to grow food/artificial ways of growing food (eg hydroponics)/G.M. modification of food/etc/etc.

Gut instinct tells you "If there isn't enough to go round - then they will try all sorts to share out what there is" and that's at present population levels and its still rising...

thriftwizard

Gut instinct tells you "If there isn't enough to go round - then they will try all sorts to share out what there is" and that's at present population levels and its still rising...

Population levels are indeed a major concern (says she with 5 offspring) but I don't see any efforts from TPTB to share out what there is; what I'm seeing amounts to them grabbing a bigger & bigger share for themselves, and setting the rest of us against each other so that we blame each other, not them, never them, for our dwindling shares.