BREAKING NEWS: Surviving the Apocalypse (cited from 8kun)

First, you have to realise that this is not a short term event

The Predator Podcast & Blog presents a public service announcement from sourced from many posts on a 8kun forum - Presented by Danica Conwell and Vivian V

SURVIVING THE APOCALYPSE

by /u/ ⌐▀͡ ̯ʖ▀)︻デ═一 • ANON. (username hidden for privacy reasons and the code of ethics).

This guide is geared towards complete societal collapse as laid out in The Limits to Growth (https://en.wikipedia . org/wiki/The_limits_to_growth). While widely criticized, it has never been disproven and, in fact, multiple follow-up studies have demonstrated we are on track over fifty years later.

There are three distinct phases to this collapse: Overshoot, Collapse, and Aftermath. Each of these phases will require their own approaches to survival.

I will also be upfront here: 99% of preper apocalypse guides are absolute crap. If your strategy is “hoard food and guns, shoot anyone who wants some of them, then steal other people’s food and guns when yours runs out” you are in for a VERY rough time. This is not The Walking Dead.

Phase 1: Overshoot
In the lead-up to collapse, an industrialized society need for resources will eventually outstrip it’s capacity to produce them. During this phase, the cost of raw materials will begin to increase exponentially as those with the money to continue buying begin to fight among each other. This will have a domino effect down production lines as the increased costs are passed onto the next in line until reaching the final consumer.

During this time is your best option to prepare yourself. Gather all the things you will need for survival in all three stages. Manufactured items will become exponentially harder to source the longer you wait and probably impossible to find after the collapse. Your best options for survival are to become self-sufficient. The less you have to buy from others, the better off you will be.

This is also the best time to start a local community. As you learn skills, offer to help your neighbors learn them as well. Offer to help fix their plumbing or work in their car. Share the produce from your garden or a home-made blanket. As times get tougher, make sure they know they can rely on you to help when needed.

Soap:You need to learn how to make it - drop down link when you click soap or it will drop down instantly.

Food: Begin growing a garden to supplement store bought food. In the beginning you are not trying to survive off only this, but it will both cut your food costs and teach you growing techniques. Start with easy things and then move to more sustainable foods. Potatoes will likely be your primary food source for a while as they are hearty, fast growing, and highly nutritious. Also try to cultivate edible native plants as they can grow even without care. As you get comfortable, add goats and chickens. There is a reason these are so common in third world countries. Both of them are highly self sufficient, will eat just about anything, and produce food even without killing them (milk/eggs). If you are not allergic to bees, learn bee keeping. This is also the time to perfect food storage. Not only will you want at least three months (preferably a year) of stored food, you will need the ability to replace it yourself. Canning, smoking, dehydration, fermentation.

Water: At this point, municipal supplies will still be working. Disruptions will be minimal. If you are on well water (most rural residences), even better.

Hygiene and Waste: Use the toilet and shower. They work. Food scraps go to the goats and chickens. Compost anything left over after that.

Electricity: Get solar with battery backup for your house and an electric car. This is just a generally good idea even if you are not apocalypse prepping. It’s better for the environment and will cut your long-term costs. If/when global society collapses you will still have (limited) automotive use and mains power for your house. If you have a gas stove, get an electric range installed instead. Your solar can make electricity, not natural gas or LP.(this will make it worse if there is a solar flare but we can’t not have electricity at this point so we all just die if that happens, end of story).

Information: Make several (at least three) copies of wikipedia for offline use. Also copies of maps, emergency medical treatment, wilderness survival, blacksmithing, animal husbandry, auto repair, wood working, and general handyman manuals. Keep them on magnetic platter hard drives as they last the longest without power (flash drives can start corrupting in as little as six months if not plugged in). Storage is cheep and small so load up everything you even suspect might be helpful. This is one case where it is very hard to over-prepare so “better to have it and not need it than to need it and not have it” applies.

Basic Life Sundries: Learn how to sew by hand. Learn how to make soap. Learn basic wood working. Learn basic mechanics. Learn alcohol distilling. Get a bicycle and learn how to fix it. All of these will save you money in the short term and could save your life after a collapse.

Weapons: Weapons are pointless at this juncture. Besides being “that weird hippie with goats” nobody cares about you. Now is the time to learn how to make Black Powder.

Phase 2: Collapse
As resources get more and more strained, eventually something will snap. A deadline won’t be met, a shipment won’t get paid for, something. This will have reverberating effects across the globe as the interconnected net of supply chains begins to collapse.

During this time all manufactured goods will become impossible to source. Any industry that requires an influx of manufactured goods to function will collapse. Expect water, electricity and global communications to begin failing as pieces break and are unable to be replaced. Stores will be unable to stock anything so if you don’t already have it or the ability to produce it, you are shit out of luck.

This will be the most dangerous part of the collapse as governments collapse and people begin to fight over what little is left.

Food: This is where having previously helped out neighbors will become vitally important. If you are not already self sufficient for food, you need to get there fast. Potatoes are probably your best option to fill the gap. If you haven’t already, help your neighbors also become self sufficient. The fewer people on the edge of starvation, the fewer people who might try and raid your garden. Having community support to watch out for each other goes a LONG way towards that as well. Also learn to forage local plants. Anything to fill that gap until full sufficiency. Dense communities like cities and suburbs will be especially hard hit for food.

Water: Be prepared to start sourcing your water from some place other than the tap. Building some water filters for community use is a very good idea. Crop water can be pulled straight from local streams/lakes/canals, but drinking water will need to be filtered and boiled. Do not expect to rely on store bought solutions like filter straws and iodine tabs. Even if the store could get some in, you’re going to be fighting with everybody else over who gets them.

Hygiene and Waste: Put your soap making skills to use. Disease and famine go together. Make sure to bathe at least once a week. At the very least you need to use filtered water to bathe, but boiling it first is ideal if you have the wood/electricity to spare. The local populous is likely using your water source (if you don’t have a well) to do their business in. As for your business, build an outhouse.

Electricity: If the grid goes down, you should have your solar set-up. Cook your food but also make sure to ration your use. Charge your car only with any extra.

Information: When you run into a problem, this is your own personal library of solutions. Read through it often. Make copies for anybody who wants them.

Basic Life Sundries: If you can’t make it or one of your immediate neighbors can’t make it, you aren’t likely to get it. By now you should know how to patch and repair most everything in your everyday life to get it back to “at least it’s functional”.

Weapons: This is the most dangerous time during the societal collapse. Anybody who hasn’t prepared will currently be dying of thirst, hunger, disease, or any combination of those. If you live in the US, a disturbing number of them will also be armed. And desperate people will do desperate things. Fortunately you don’t have to be “impenetrable”, you only have to be “not worth the effort”. If you have the option to have guns, I recommend hunting rifles and shotguns as a short-term solution. They easily double as hunting weapons and people using them are much less prone to “spray and pray” tactics, saving ammo (remember, you can’t get any more). For long term solutions, I recommend a couple of black powder revolvers and a black powder rifle. Machetes, pitch forks, and hammers are excellent melee weapons that are both effective and require almost no training. Your goal is not to murder everyone, but to secure yourself from raiders until people are no longer driven to desperation tactics.

Phase 3: Aftermath
As the world’s population regains it’s footing, it will do so much reduced in numbers and manufacturing ability. This is the phase where humanity as a whole can begin picking up the pieces. Artifacts will abound and a true post-apocalypse scavenger society will emerge. Trade will begin to resume between communities but we will be probably hundreds of years away from reaching our pre-collapse grandeur.

Food: Full farms should now be possible. Most people will be subsistence farmers with a few trade crops mixed in. Most cooking by this point will be done with firewood.

Water: The best communities will have set up access to clean drinking water. Mass irrigation from natural sources and dedicated wells is likely the norm.

Hygiene and Waste: Your soap making skills are going to save a lot of lives in the coming years. Dedicated waste management systems will need to be constructed. Without the help of powered digging equipment, expect this to be a labor intensive community job. The other option is to keep pooping in the streets and rivers, but dark-ages Europe should have shown us all why that is a terrible idea.

Electricity: solar panels do not last forever and are relatively fragile. As they break, look to replace them with wind and water sources using parts that can be manufactured by the local blacksmith (coper wire and iron cores, mostly). Other items like rechargeable flashlights and your car will simply be discarded as they become irreparable over time.

Information: As a final step, transcribe everything you saved to paper. Like your car, computers will not last forever and eventually the hard drives, no matter how well preserved, will no longer have anything to read them with. Add this to your local library for everyone to have access to. Information is going to be the single most important key to rebuilding society.

Basic Life Sundries: By this point there should be dedicated jobs again. Weavers, herders, leather workers, blacksmiths. Find your place among them and trade for what you need.

Weapons: Cartridge guns will be useless by this point. The level of manufacturing precision for ammunition means that it’s simply not worth the effort to make. Instead, the manufacture of lower tech items like bows and cross bows will take over. The few black powder guns will become prized possessions as they are the only usable firearms left.

Final notes:
First, you have to realize that this is not a short term event. It will last the rest of your life. Unless you are hoarding enough food, guns, and ammo to sequester yourself for half a century, you are not going to do well. Also keep in mind that denying people life-saving support under threat of death does not endear them to you. If you do this, do not expect any sort of help when your own stockpile runs out. In the worst case, it means they are likely to kill you and take your stuff simply out of spite.

Second, there is a LOT this guide doesn’t cover. It is a guide not a tutorial. Use it to point you in the right direction, but don’t be afraid to add to or modify it. For example, what plants you grow will be highly dependent on your climate.

Third, remember that after the collapse there will be no resupply. You have to make things last as long as possible. Reuse. Repurpose. Repair. Scavenge what’s available. Manufacture what you can. A Zippo lighter is far superior to disposable because it is refillable and can run on alcohol you can distill yourself. A sturdy, fixed-blade knife is far superior to that $10 folding blade you got at the corner store. Use this mindset when gathering the supplies you need. This also means stay away from anything gasoline powered. Stored gas goes bad in just a few months. Instead, use rechargeable battery powered options. They can be charged off your solar setup and are much more reliable when stored for extended periods between use.

Basic Starting Equipment:
Disaster Survival Bag
Bicycle with spare tires and tubes
Mechanic’s tools including wrenches, screw drivers, pliers, utility knife, etc.
Carpenter’s tools including saw, claw hammer, speed square, tape measure, etc.
Gardening tools including trowel, shovel, hoe, rake, electric tiller, shears, etc.
Compost bin
Chicken coop and goat enclosure.
Sewing kit
Canning equipment
Bee hive and honey collection equipment
Fixed blade hunting knife and whetstone
Zippo style lighters
Alcohol distillery
Machete
Bolt action hunting rifle in .30-06 or .308, with scope (where applicable)
Rifle ammo (the more the better, but this is absolutely a secondary concern, you can only eat one bullet)
Black powder revolver
Black powder rifle
Gun maintenance kit

By anon from 8KUN

Presented by Vivian V

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