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Living Off the Grid in the City Podcast. Here I continue to discuss catastrophes and how living off the grid can help you through them, survive them, help others and emerge from them. Financial collapses, mega earthquakes, mega storms, mega EMPs, mega volcanoes, and Chicxulub type asteroid impacts are discussed. And, it is briefly explained how living off the grid helps before, during, and after those events. Again, catastrophes are much more disruptive than crises. They are generally devastating. And, living off the grid helps you prepare by living away from grid connected services; having off grid tech at the ready; and having supplies and resources in stock. Finally, the structures, technologies, and methods for off grid living, will also help the off gridder survive and thrive during and after a catastrophe.
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00:00the world has grown increasingly dependent on national and international finances especially after the worldwide adoption of capitalism and the monetary system and history has taught us that capitalistic society encourages suffering and scarcity through greed and continuously works for the advantage of mostly the wealthy
00:21a financial collapse can occur when there is a financial depression or when a currency collapses this can be local or widespread and these events could be brought about by many factors such as economic mismanagement war corruption etc
00:37for example when a deep financial disorder is expected bankers often respond by limiting loans and restructuring their institutions but often after funneling significant wealth upward
00:48actions such as these generally disrupt all kinds of markets and a financial recession may ensue in some cases the disruption triggers a domino effect that may cause a widespread economic depression
01:02in rarer cases a complete financial collapse may occur financial services which fuel many other industries may severely slow or cease to operate in dire financial depressions
01:15during this time and long after commercial social and government services may also be severely impacted or stopped scarcity of jobs income and money generally triggers scarcity in goods and services in many other markets
01:30there may be scarcity in water food electricity and communication services although wealthy governments may continue to provide services in a limited capacity during such times
01:42some governments may be directly impacted and weakened as a result
01:46in some financial collapses the government may cease services or become ineffective at its duties
01:53make no mistake dire circumstances such as the ones described have occurred in the not so distant history
02:01in 1929 the u.s financial stock exchange crashed due to various reasons
02:06among them was the widespread public panic in the banking sector
02:11there millions of people flocked to banks to withdraw their funds causing a widespread depletion of the money supply
02:18in turn loans became severely scarce thus drying up liquidity in a plethora businesses
02:24also the consequences of the then recent world war cannot be ignored
02:29many countries in europe were destroyed and the world's power dynamics changed dramatically
02:35the great depression quickly spread to the rest of the world and national and international commerce was deeply disrupted
02:42in its aftermath millions of people suffered permanent or extended unemployment displacement and hunger
02:49in the u s alone unemployment peaked at nearly twenty five percent of the entire population
02:55in nineteen ninety one the soviet union collapsed as a coherent government system and its economy suffered deeply as a result peaking in nineteen ninety eight and the many nations that were dependent on the soviet economy suffered after its government systems dissolution
03:10cuba stands as an example of this going through a severe period of financial and material scarcity due to this and other factors in 2008 the u s came uncomfortably close to triggering another great depression instead the financial crisis was limited to a severe recession
03:28however millions suffered from the subsequent high unemployment goods and services cost inflation
03:34for the u s it was a slow and grinding recovery and in june of 2022 the economy of sri lanka was declared as collapsed
03:44that nation suffered severe shortages in food electricity and fuel the country also struggled to provide essential services such as education and health care
03:53in our money dependent society the negative effects of a financial collapse are obvious for example the cruelty and the greed of utility companies will prompt their swift disconnection
04:05at the slightest hint of non-payment and non-payment is very likely in a financial collapse
04:11likely your income will stop your savings may quickly dwindle and inflation may devalue your money reserves
04:18if payments can't be made not only by you but by most of your neighbors the utilities will severely slow
04:24their quantity and quality of service or cease to operate entirely this cascade effect may slow or stop water
04:31food electricity and communication services other goods and services may become scarce or non-existent for long periods of time
04:40the off gridder will not benefit from a financial collapse but she may be more able to maintain a safe
04:46healthy and happier existence than her grid connected peers even during and after a financial collapse
04:52again this may be possible through the off gridder's diminished dependence on the monetary system and other
04:57systems as mentioned earlier if you can harness more of the earth's naturally and freely available
05:03resources you don't need to pay as much or any money for them remember no one ever created water and food
05:10so those who charge you for them are just mostly interjecting themselves between you and those
05:15resources only packaging them and putting a label and a price tag on them yes i understand it takes labor
05:22to farm gather and distribute food but those are things easily done by most of us at least to a good degree
05:29but we have allowed abusive food costs to be normal i say we should disallow it
05:35harnessing water and growing food can be free of monetary needs i will explain exactly how in part two of
05:42this text the same may be the case for harnessing and producing energy and maintaining long-range
05:48communications with few exceptions again if an off-gridder is really not totally disconnected
05:55she may be online with infrastructure methods and systems to harness and generate these resources
06:01efficiently and share them all while hardly feeling the effects of a financial collapse in fact she or
06:08he may benefit from a financial collapse and that they may provide and relay those systems and knowledge
06:12to others and become a source of knowledge and freedom for others nature caused catastrophes
06:20pandemics as i write this the world is still reeling from the effects of covet 19 the 2020 pandemic
06:27as i speak thousands are still dying every week worldwide and the death toll at this moment is
06:33around 6.9 million our response as a world could be categorized as nothing more than pathetic some of
06:41the most advanced nations and their leadership turned out to be among the most stubborn when it came to taking
06:46protective measures we witnessed as nations chose to protect their coffers over the lives of hundreds of
06:52thousands of thousands of their vulnerable citizens in the u.s for example we saw how arrogance and
06:57selfishness quelled collaboration and caused nations to deny sharing aid and medicine in or out of their borders
07:04as each week claimed more and more lives during the pandemic we saw vaccine resistance mobilize with
07:10exceptional strength not only to remain unvaccinated but to discredit the efforts to protect and vaccinate others
07:16in wealthy nations we also saw how governments redistributed wealth using the pandemic as a pretext
07:23mainly siphoning it from poor to rich by giving businesses and corporations unjustifiable grants
07:29disguised as loans to protect jobs curiously these loans had little requirement to protect those jobs
07:37as millions lost tens of thousands in income and property governments handed out meager checks totaling a
07:43few thousand dollars spread over a period of about a year these depressive checks were given to the
07:48general population without prerequisites and included the wealthy who surely took longer to deposit their
07:54unneeded checks also during this pandemic we saw how governments used the event to deny entry to
08:00desperate poor and dark-skinned asylum seekers and migrants by the tens of thousands and to further
08:06deny aid and relief to oppressed populations in palestine afghanistan latin america africa and the
08:12middle east things were as violent and cruel as ever not only did governments deny aid to
08:18largely oppressed populations but even in america where the health care racism was more exposed
08:23official violence was unleashed when people united in protest in the black lives matter demonstrations
08:29three years into the pandemic after it apparently was wrapping up but likely having run most of its
08:35evolutionary course unwavered it continued killing thousands of unvaccinated hosts every week
08:40and in the midst of this a powerful few decide that going to war was the priority of the moment the conflict in ukraine erupted in early twenty twenty two and our attention away from the pandemic was then complete vaccinated and not
08:55by now the pandemic had evolved into a disease that was just barely more severe than its predecessor
09:01the flu which originated in the 1918 influenza pandemic
09:05and embarrassingly the 2020's covid-19 caused orders of magnitude more deaths than the 1918 pandemic
09:12unless you're somehow utterly uninformed about the 2019 pandemic we should now be quite familiar with the causes and possible worldwide effects of a viral pandemic
09:22we know as it did that it can bring disruptions in human migration water and food availability social life and commerce it may affect necessary supplies of medicine and many other health related needs for example in the spring of twenty twenty two there was a severe shortage of the breast milk alternative baby formula
09:42in a society where limits are mostly determined by how early you arrive at the store and how much money you have in your purse at the time of purchase supplies quickly vanished and many babies and their families struggled to secure the few left and dwindling supplies all due to the early buyers hoarding vast amounts
09:59also rushes on toilet paper and water affected those supplies too in many areas during the pandemic business and government facility closures affected the job market and the availability of countless goods and services for limited periods in the u s and longer periods in other parts of the world
10:17the reaction to the pandemic was quite varied around the world for example some cities in china were strictly locked down for several consecutive weeks
10:26while vast areas in the u s dismissed the pandemic as a hoax early on there local governments and businesses failed to take any significant precautions and many deaths resulted
10:37apart from the death and health crisis suffered by many individuals during a pandemic it threatens the economic and material standing of millions
10:45in such events your income may slow down or stop for indefinite periods and your savings if you have any may quickly dwindle
10:53during that time many struggled to pay for basic things such as food rent and health care food aid lines were at record-breaking lengths all over the world and many employers either laid off workers or took little to no precautions to protect their workers from the disease so many quit
11:09this careless and arrogant corporate attitude toward their employees triggered one of the largest employment resignations and refusal to return to work in american history clearly a world-wide pandemic is a catastrophe and they are unpredictable as to the course it may take in its severity and the response of the people in charge
11:28for this living off the grid may bring many advantages in the early stages of a pandemic where panic and chaos may break out and threaten safety and many other necessities an off gridder may be able to quickly isolate from others
11:42this is the most effective defense in a pandemic this isolation however its extent aids in the prevention of infection and may enable you and others to remain in relative safety and peace during possible panics so in a pandemic the tables turn for off gridders as isolation is necessary
12:00additionally the off-grid lifestyle helps you avoid all sorts of other unnecessary problems during a pandemic like how to get basic needs as in other catastrophes the ability to harness and store water grow and store food and generate energy locally give the off gridder clear advantages also the ability to communicate through long distances relatively privately
12:30the off gridder to live without the strict dependence on income is a huge advantage given the off gridder has secured low cost or free shelter she or he may live in isolation without the need to earn money for indefinite periods even if the off gridder pays for a shelter she may be able to hold out much longer than others who use money much more and some monetary savings even if little may go a long way for the off gridder recall less bills less need to work for money to pay for those bills right
13:00more valuable than the off gridder more valuable than the technology and the property is the off gridder's ability to make consistent smart and logical decisions as we saw logical thinking was thrown out the window in many areas during the pandemic logical decisions may be uncomfortable and inconvenient some for the benefit of many more but many rather risk it all for the sake of keeping things the same for example wearing masks in public supporting considering and taking relatively safe and effective vaccines
13:30avoiding gatherings in crowds avoiding panic purchasing etc as reasonable as these things are they were the focus of rabid resistance for millions around the world especially in the u s hopefully the off gridder values empirical statistical and scientific evidence enough to remain objective during a pandemic
13:50thankfully world pandemics are rare but when the next one will occur naturally accidentally or deliberately is utterly unpredictable but i wholeheartedly believe that living off the grid is a powerful lifestyle for preparedness to cope survive and emerge from and to help others during the next possible pandemic
14:10megavolcanic event the largest mass extinction event is thought to have been triggered by massive volcanism about 255 million years ago and megavolcanism is theorized to have contributed to the extinction of the dinosaurs about 65 million years ago
14:28a megavolcanic event is not the single volcanic eruption occurring once every few years or decades it is entire planet affecting caused by a cascade of massive volcanic eruptions spanning hundreds of years
14:40if humans lived through such an event there would be several generations that experienced only these volcanic conditions
14:47a supervolcano eruption may also qualify as a megavolcanic event a supervolcano will have an eruption with a volcanic explosivity index of eight or larger
14:58and the volume of deposits ejecta bulk volume would be greater than one thousand cubic kilometers
15:03this means unthinkable destruction to large portions of a region with likely planetary wide impact
15:10i'm talking about entire nations or even continents that may be effectively sterilized from entire species
15:17in other words entire ecosystem collapse there have been supervolcano eruptions in the relative recent history
15:24and it is likely one will occur sometime in present times such as the taupo supervolcano modern north new
15:30zealand toba caldera modern north sumatra like these some were particularly large mega volcanoes with the toba
15:38caldera eruption and tetagoush group in what would become modern canada 466 million years ago this event tops the list
15:47with an ejecta bulk volume of around 5000 cubic kilometers a looming possibility of comparable
15:54magnitude exists throughout the world including areas in or near yellowstone national park in the u.s mega storm
16:02storms may be classified as storm of the century 500 year storm or 1000 year storm these are storm cells
16:10that can bring unimaginable deluges and floods that may affect entire continents such storms have occurred many
16:16times in history and may be the reason why there are several accounts of world-spanning floods in
16:21ancient texts in modern times some storms have brought catastrophes for example in 2005 hurricane
16:28katrina brought catastrophic floods to the mississippi river basin causing historic flooding in south louisiana
16:35especially officially about 90 000 square miles were declared part of the disaster zone by the u.s government
16:42and hurricane sandy in 2012 brought similar flooding to the northeast states of the u.s and in 2020
16:50unbelievable flooding occurred in six nations in south asia afghanistan bangladesh india nepal pakistan and
16:57sri lanka there upwards of six thousand people lost their lives directly due to the flooding and
17:03unmeasurable material losses occurred additionally in the summer of 2022 pakistan experienced its most extensive
17:10flooding there floods were among the deadliest with over 1700 deaths and one of the costliest disasters
17:18in its history disturbingly in the midst of the effects of global warming flooding is expected to be among
17:24the most destructive aspects of mega storms living off the grid surely helps of course if the off gridder
17:32escapes the flooding itself even if all but life and health is lost the off gridder's knowledge and
17:38methods may still aid in the survival coping and emergence in the aftermath of a catastrophic flood
17:44first the off gridder will know to locate shelter in high ground ideally well before any catastrophe
17:50strikes when this is not readily possible the off gridder should monitor the weather and evacuate
17:55early during warnings or at first signs of the event if evacuation has become unsafe prior to a
18:01possible flooding event then emergency evacuations to high ground may be necessary this means having
18:08a way to navigate in rough and deep water if the off gridder already resides in high ground during
18:13such an event she or he should accept in as many refugees as possible not doing so on a temporary
18:20basis would be criminal again the off gridder's material and technological aids are likely to help not
18:26only the off gridder but many others around her tornado outbreak in the spring of 2011 there occurred
18:34what is now known as the 2011 super tornado outbreak it is as of this writing the largest costliest and
18:41among the deadliest tornado outbreaks ever recorded it occurred in the southern midwestern and northeastern
18:47u.s from april 25th to 28th 2011 it left catastrophic destruction after spawning about 175 tornadoes that
18:57struck the u.s states of alabama mississippi and tennessee other states experienced less destructive
19:03tornadoes in the same outbreak arkansas georgia kentucky louisiana new york and virginia in the
19:09winter of 2021 areas of western kentucky experienced a catastrophic tornado outbreak there multiple
19:17tornadoes traveled an exceptionally long trek over 160 miles the destruction was catastrophic to several
19:24towns and counties along its path where 57 fatalities were confirmed and over 4 000 structures were
19:31destroyed if the off-gridder escapes the destructive power of a tornado outbreak she or he may cope with
19:38the destruction around her access to water food communication and energy may be uninterrupted if
19:44these off-grid systems remain intact if not rebuilding efforts may begin immediately given the off-gridder
19:51is unharmed and fallen structures can be cleared out the ability to communicate despite destruction of
19:57telephone and cellular network infrastructure may be among the most advantageous abilities of the off-gridder
20:03after a tornado outbreak she may be able to warn of impending tornadoes before or as the outbreak is
20:09occurring and may take part in rescue and response efforts in the aftermath mega electromagnetic pulse
20:17the unthinkable attack deliberate nuclear explosions occurred on august 6 in hiroshima and on august 9 in nagasaki
20:25japan in addition to the catastrophic and immediate destruction and carnage due to the explosion there were
20:31the effects of its electromagnetic pulse emp the region at the time surely depended relatively little on
20:39electronics outside of the analog telegraph and telephone communications but surely the electronic
20:45systems disabling effects of the emps were felt even there further on the world only narrowly escaped an
20:53all-out nuclear war between the us and the ussr in november 1979 the us-based north american aerospace
21:00command received an automated computerized warning of an ongoing nuclear intercontinental ballistic missile
21:06attack thought to be perpetrated by the ussr the dire warning was luckily discovered to be false
21:12computer inputs from an exercise software program which in various ways was initially confused as a real
21:19world occurrence by military personnel at that time the mistake could have easily been responded to with
21:25catastrophic results a nuclear explosion especially in the upper atmosphere can have electronic destroying
21:32effects electric power electronic equipment and communication infrastructure may be disabled during a
21:39nuclear attack emp as i write this we are at the highest risk of nuclear war since the cold war years
21:46a nuclear armed state russia is at war with its neighbor ukraine and the conflict could take a number of courses
21:53including runaway international escalation a nuclear attack even in u.s territory or airspace is not
22:01impossible and nuclear attacks in other parts of the world are more likely in the horrific event of a
22:07nuclear attack apocalyptic level destruction is possible for large areas of the planet in such an
22:14unthinkable event the off gridder is likely to benefit from her abilities mentality technology and methods
22:21also the off gridder may quickly be able to adapt to an electricity less environment and may continue to
22:26harness water from a ground source and grow food indoors additionally the off gridder may have
22:32protected her essential electronics shielding them from the effects of emp using one or various methods
22:38if those fail many ancient and electricity less technologies exist which may be deployed or brought up to
22:45operation for example you may use cooling and refrigeration technologies that date back to the ancient times of persia
22:52or communication may be quickly re-established by constructing analog telephones and infrastructure
22:58using readily available materials and equipment a host of other life improving electricity less or battery
23:05pre-operated technologies may be built if not already available after the emp like icebox air
23:11conditioners solar cookers solar refrigerators and even rudimentary cameras many electricity less
23:18technologies will be discussed in part two of this text chicxelub like asteroid impact few things may affect
23:26humanity more than mass extinction events one of them is a chicxelub type asteroid impact the chicxelub crater is
23:34a now confirmed asteroid impact site near the modern town of chicxelub in mexico's yucatan peninsula
23:41it is theorized as being the primary cause of the extinction of the dinosaurs around 65 million years
23:47ago no human may conceivably survive the immediate direct impact of a chicxelub type event not unless
23:54perhaps distanced 500 to 1500 miles from the impact hypocenter and the consequent earth-changing
24:02effects of such an event may further bring destruction of unfathomable numbers of life
24:07forms so those who escape the direct impact may still suffer or perish due to its effects
24:13those people fortunate enough to inhabit close to a thousand miles away from the impact site may find
24:19ways to survive the ensuing changes to the planet but likely only if they are conditioned to quickly
24:25adapt to such dramatic changes the planetary atmospheric and biospheric changes would ensure
24:31that only the toughest and most adaptable life forms survive and i believe many members of humanity have
24:37what it takes to survive such an event but many perhaps majority may not they simply may not be healthy
24:45skillful or resilient enough to make the necessary adjustments to survive these adjustments may mean
24:51mass continental distance migrations reverting to hunting foraging and gathering food and quickly
24:57securing sources of drinking water resources may be especially scarce due to ensuing earthquakes
25:03volcanism cloud cover ash fall etc the entire earth's climate may run away into unpredictable and
25:10extreme conditions for example early stage ice age conditions may quickly move in exposing humanity into
25:17desperate otherworldly environments our technologies and genetic makeup may rapidly evolve naturally to
25:24adapt but only after mass death and struggle we may cope artificially through technology and medicine
25:31but for us to cope with technology it must have already been in place as after the changes brought by
25:37and chick's a love impact our technology may be mostly destroyed or unusable a whole new world would be
25:43brought by such an event one that may remain the same for generations into the future living off the grid in
25:51such unlikely times may take an entirely different meaning there may be few artificial grids to speak of
25:57throughout the world or to live off from so going back to nature may be something done by necessity for a
26:04large percentage of the surviving humanity in many ways the human condition may cycle back and start again
26:10and we may slowly attempt to get away from the ravages of nature and into community and collaboration
26:16hopefully with lessons learned from our detrimental mistakes of the past having said all this again
26:22off-griders may emerge as leaders under such dire conditions contributors of knowledge in the art of
26:28survival with the earth's resources and away from high technology and a monetary system to depend on
26:34mega earthquake earthquakes for magnitudes of about nine point euro or higher can be classified as
26:41mega earthquakes mega earthquakes have scientifically been called mega thrust earthquakes these earthquakes
26:48are caused by a slip along the thrust fall that forms the contact between two tectonic plates
26:54thrust faults are often at the bottom of oceanic trenches which can displace the seafloor over a large area
27:00as a result mega thrust earthquakes may result in tsunamis that may devastate areas far from the epicenter
27:08one such mega earthquake occurred in recent memory in lumico chile estimated to have had a magnitude 9.5
27:15their fatality records vary between 1000 and 1600 and the monetary cost of the earthquake adjusted to
27:22today is about 5.5 billion dollars the resulting tsunamis affected other areas of chile and several other
27:29pacific islands and nations an undersea mega earthquake originating in the suna megathrust in the indo-australian
27:37plate was responsible for the 2004 indian ocean tsunami this tsunami generated waves of an unbelievable 30 meters
27:45in height the death toll was estimated to be a disturbing 227 000 people in 14 different countries it was the
27:53third most powerful earthquake ever recorded in asia in january of 2010 a powerful seven-point earthquake
28:01struck the nation of haiti near the capital city of port-au-prince although not classified as a mega
28:06earthquake its destructiveness to life and structures was extreme estimated casualties range from 100 000 to
28:13over 200 000 the closeness of the epicenter to a densely populated capital city the poor living conditions of
28:20many of the area's inhabitants and the dire humanitarian crisis that ensued puts this event
28:26in the mega disaster category there massive destruction of residences 250 000 and commercial
28:33buildings 30 000 contributed to the high number of casualties also poor building practices were a major
28:40contributing factor to the destructiveness the direct effects of a mega earthquake and or a tsunami
28:46are hardly survivable but if you were to survive them or not suffer their direct after effects living
28:52off the grid may help utility sources of water may be contaminated or disabled as treatment facilities
28:59may have been damaged the off-gridder may remain connected to her or his off-grid source of water
29:05thus feeling little change after the event makeshift rain collectors may be erected if rain is available
29:11and stored water may be used for months to years if necessary and available the off-gridder may use
29:17stocks of food and produce a sufficient percentage of her or his nutritional needs locally if food
29:23production systems were destroyed surviving plants and animals may be relocated and systems may be quickly
29:30rebuilt by the experienced off-gridder electricity use may be postponed until other more critical systems are
29:36brought online such as food water health care and communications communications may be quickly
29:43re-established after surviving a mega earthquake by replacing repairing and or redeploying associated
29:49equipment among other knowledge the off-gridder is recommended to learn from past catastrophic events
29:55and may have experience with some past disasters this knowledge and experience combined with the
30:00willingness to assist supply and share resources may enable off gridders to help herself and others
30:07survive and emerge from a mega earthquake
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