what-about=NATURAL-RECOURCES??????

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EVERY-STATE has natural-recources.what if everyone created a mini-eco-system, from local-recources.even the poorest-family can dig-a- hole in there yard, fill with water,throw in some sand & organic soil'wait 2 weeks'plant some cattails'water-lily,s'go find you some fish,plant flowers & veggies around pond, use pond to fertilize garden.a good=mini-eco-system is a forever-thing.

-- al-d. (catt@zianet.com), June 20, 1999

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what if everyone bought 100 pounds of rice and beans?

-- zoobie (zoobiezoob@yahoo.com), June 20, 1999.

well-zoobie'rice-&-beans get-old real-quick.besides+WATER is the biggee'if you,ve got a pond' or even a patio water garden'if push-comes to shove you can use the pond water-for other things-and save on using-drinking-water. just-a-thought. i,ve got 5000 gal.s of pond water, besides'my stored potable-water.& water plants purify-water, just ask-chevron,they use-bacteria [good-kind] to eat-oil.besides-if-y2k is a 8'9/-or 10-how long will your supplies-last?????????????

-- al-d. (catt@zianet.com), June 20, 1999.

P.P.S. THANKS =to all my many AM.-INDIAN friends for all the great info.-on survival-tips. yay=n.m.--if y2k is as bad as EXPERTS predict who-will laugh-last. the survivalist,s-or-those that are so-oo very dependant on THE-SYSTEM??? CREATE your own-enviroment.

-- al-d. (catt@zianet.com), June 20, 1999.

Hey Al-d, did any of your Indian friends tell you how to create your own environment to produce little chocolate donuts? Mmmm, my favorites.

Oh by the way Al-d, unlike a hundred years ago, if things get bad, and I mean really bad, the sheer amount of radioactive fallout is going to make it hard for anyone to have the last laugh. Or do American Indians have some sort of DNA that allows them to soak radioactove isotopes into thier skin without getting killed?

Get with the program Al-d, we ARE ALL in the same boat. Survivalists and dependents alike. If the shit hits the fan there won't be a teepee strong enough give shelter to anyone from the effects of nuclear attack.

Nukes,... they aren't just for looking at ya know.

-- (Uranium 238@ for breakfast. yummy), June 20, 1999.


al d, That's part of the problem. It's not really ABOUT who laughs last.

-- malcolm drake (jumpoff@echoweb.net), June 20, 1999.


Natural resources would be forever until many try to utilize them simultanously. Small game- squirrels, racoons etc pretty well were decimated in regions of the US during the Great Depression.

Been considering this in our neighbor- kind of rural- if everbody tries collecting edible plants not only will they not go around but they will, in ignorance, collect them at the wrong time or leave nothing for seed next year or destroy other valuable plants in the process.

In this case ignorance is not bliss. Have to wonder what is left for foraging in North Korea and how long it will be until the eco-system recovers.

EC

-- EC (JHnck1776@aol.com), June 20, 1999.


the-nukes-won,t fall until GOD' ordains they-fall'how many years has he held it back??...JESUS=SAID>who by worrying can add a day to his life?? i don,t sweat the BIG-STUFF' that,s HIS business. [MAN PROPOSES--GOD DISPOSES]-me little man-him BIG-GOD.

-- al-d. (catt@zianet.com), June 20, 1999.

no-doubt people don,t think about to-morrow.but i can,t help wonder' what if enough folks-cared. theres alway,s the jerks.look at what ISRAEL has done with a desert.MAJOR exporters of fruits,veggies' and big into=aquaculture. just-thoughts.i know it works for me'i got the CIRCLE going.

-- al-d. (catt@zianet.com), June 20, 1999.

The problem is not "What resources do we have?", it is rather "How can we efficiently and profitably TRADE what we HAVE for what we NEED?" Not everyone can create an mini-eco-system.

-- Mr. Mike (mikeabn@aol.com), June 20, 1999.

i,ll probably be trading fresh-fish' for something i forgot. i got an interesting e-mail;;from a tropical fish-breeder'he,s sweating electricity failures. he,s got huge aquariums[lotsa-water] i asked him if he,s got a garden.told him in worst-case scene'use the fish for fretilizer in veg.-garden-i never use chemical,s i use big old carp. you oughta see my veggies.ever-ate an oscar-yummie.and all that water in tanks' don,t think he,ll be sweating water for awhile.

-- al-d. (catt@zianet.com), June 20, 1999.


i have some bad b.o, i smell something< awful

-- al-d. (catt@zianet.com), June 20, 1999.

Hey,al-d,i hear ya about the fish for fertilizer. Many years ago lived back East in rural Vermont,had friends whose hubby worked at fish hatchery, told me the samething, brought a bunch of dead ones for me to till into the garden. I am a no pesticide,no weeding except when the new ones are just babies, then survival of the fittest! Nonetheless, there was a great harvest from that garden. Thanks for helping the memory along. I agree with the mini-ecosystem set-up, just got to learn more about doing it.

-- Barb (awaltrip@telepath.com), June 20, 1999.

If too many people plan on hunting and fishing for sustenance, the animals and fish will be depleted...and it may take a score or two of years until they reach a healthy population again. We may see a log of extra (and desperate) goat and pig hunters here on Kauai.

-- Mad Monk (madmonk@hawaiian.net), June 20, 1999.

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