Dax wrote:I'm not a pessimist, but a realist, don't hold out any of the blind empty hope that everyone seems to be clinging to.
You're right about buildings, they are built today purely on cheap economic grounds, not safety or longevity. One side of my family is Tasmanian, have had a property down here for decades, but had the business based in the ACT for a long time. But lived in the snowies until 1997, then moved to Tas permanently.
After the massive fire storm in the Sth east which devastated Dunnely, where I have lots of friends. suggested to those rebuilding to build earth covered homes like mine, but they all rebuilt with modern flammable materials and the next fire storm, which will be in the next couple of years, will wipe them out again.
I'm a builder by trade, that's where got my money to build up my company into what it is today. Have built many earth covered self sufficient homes last century, you'd think that side of building would grow as people realised what is happening with global warming. But it has dwindled to almost nothing, as people take the short term option of cheap, junk, flimsy, highly flammable materials and that's the case with all building today.
To me, this is a sign of how far from reality everyone lives and how they are more interested in their short term economic standards, than long term survival standards. That's why i say no hope for big cities in the future and with concentration on single point distribution and long grid lines. As climate changes and weather ramps up, their gird systems will collapse over and over.
If you've lived in Tas for any length of time, you;d realise how vulnerable the grid is, there is constant power failures round the state. That's because of the strong winds we always get here, so when these start hitting Aus and grids collapse, cities will start suffering badly.
I agree with you Dax. What you say makes sense. So I'd suggset Monk talks to you about the ins and outs .
If I were seriously in the market for same, I'd talk to you about it.
But, no, I think I'm going to have to manage with my wee house, as I am.
You are obviously a survivalist, so you also obviously, have a family and crew to look out for. More power to you.
