So, let’s take a walk back in time.
Humanity was a rural based society. Then, as food became more plentiful, people
started flowing into villages. Villages became towns. Towns become cities. And
then they grow up to full blown metropolises. As we progressed as a society,
people’s ability to live off the land and provide for themselves diminishes.
Now, we are pretty good in that we do have quite a few hunters in our group. We
have seeds. We have water. We have developed our means of supporting ourselves
for quite a while. Granted, we are only supporting a small number of people
because technically we are living in a rural area.
Because of the limited number of
people in our store and the large amount of supplies that we have on hand, we
are nowhere near desperation levels. But I am trying to imagine survivors in
places like New York City, Dallas, Kansas City, Los Angeles. Imagine being in
an area where it is nothing but concrete for miles in every direction. How
could you plant crops to get you a renewable food source? We are lucky enough
to have a pasture literally right outside our back door.
I am just thinking about how we would
fare if we were in the heart of Tulsa or Oklahoma City and this happened. What
if we had twice the number of people in here? What if we had half the number of
food? What if the food runs out?
At what point do you have to brave the
outside world in order to survive? Right now, where we are, I have discussed
the Great White Shark analogy. Where we are the mentality is, “If we go
outside, we might die. In here, we have safety and security.” But we have food
and water. What if the water and food runs out?
You would get to a point where you
would say, “If we stay here with no food, we WILL die. But if we go out there,
we MIGHT die.” And you have to brave the zombies to find the essentials. So,
would the best place to look for shelter in the more rural communities?
Oklahoma is pretty freaking rural. You
only have to drive ten minutes outside of a place like Tulsa and see large
expansions of pasture. I don’t even want to think about Montana where neighbors
are miles and miles apart. The odds of a roving horde rolling through are
probably pretty slim. And even more accurately, the odds of a roving horde
rolling through and camping outside your door is even less.
Is that the answer? If you are in a
highly populated area, can you escape out to the suburbs and then escape out to
the rural area? Depending on how quickly the population is decimated, there
could still be a wealth of canned food, bottled water…
Is this how humanity survives? By
switching back to a rural lifestyle and getting out of the cities? Then we just
have to wait for the zombie bodies to rot off and then reclaim the world?
If you think that would work for you,
I would say go for it. It might not be a good plan but it might be your best
plan…
