we got out to a baseball game recently with our friend alex. i enjoy baseball games for the experience rather than the game itself.
sitting in the sun with the dome open,cito gaston back in charge and birds squawking above us, we got to talking about what interesting times we live in, and what we should do if the world gets suddenly, drastically, alarmingly terrible (due to, say, exreme weather, crop shortages, fuel shortages, soil erosion, world war, genetically engineered superviruses, or 'the vortex of extinction' that laurence the bee expert believes honeybees are teetering on the edge of) ad we find our world in some way going *boom*.
alex likes the idea of a safe place to escape to, where we could grow our own food and sustain ourelves until the pillaging and riots and general tummult subside. i like this idea. Of course, if the disaster is something like sulfur gas exploding out of the earth and poisoning everything that breathes, then there's not really any safe place.
alex also figures we should have dirt bikes to get to the farm--cars are too cumbersome and would likely get tied up in the panic-saturated gridlock so often featured in end-of-the-world movies. i pointed out that the vespa company would pay our carbon offsets for three years if we bought vespas. it wouldn't matter , but it's a nice though.
livestock would be good, provided there's not rampant foot and mouth epidemics. i think goats are ideal for post apocalyptic farming. very versatile, goats. they eat all kinds of things, they give milk, theyre not large enough to turn on someone and kill them, and they would probably manage stairs a lot better than cows (some living-beyond-the-big-boom scenarios feature a subterrean shelter).
i suppose this might all seem a little creepy and morbid, but it's a game we play based on what 3 of us know is going on in the world. predictions for ice cap melting and declining fish populations and areas of land lost to soil erosion are all coming true, but way faster than we believed they would.
what will you do?
(if you have skills that would be useful in a survival situation (or goats) to offer, please talk to one of us)
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