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July 13, 2008
Let's discuss the Zombie Apocalypse.
Post-apocalypse without the militias: The Outquisition (via b2)
"...if folks who knew tools and innovation left the comfy bright green cities and traveled to the dead mall suburban slums, rustbelt browntowns and climate-smacked farm communities and started helping the locals get the tools they needed... Helping rural landowners apply climate foresight and farm biodiversity... Hacking together DIY windmills and ad hoc smart grids, communication systems, water treatment systems.."
I find this unbelievably patronizing. There are folks in rural areas already creating DIY windmills and the like. They're the ones who are going to save your hipster ass when the Zombie Apocalypse comes. Not the other way around, dumbasses.
Don't believe me? I'll loan you the copy of "Home Power" magazine where my uncle is profiled. He's off the grid because there are no utilities where he lives, and he's hacked together a combination of bought and salvaged components to power his house. Trust me-- he "knows tools and innovation".
Posted by lisa at July 13, 2008 12:10 PM
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Both my grandfathers, one a farmer and the other a blue collar factory worker, were innovative adaptive engineers of tools and technologies. My dad's dad is a not just a skilled farmer but an accomplished draftsman, builder, welder, woodworker and mechanic. My mom's dad left school after third grade to help support the family -- and he was a truly impressive horticulturalist, tinkerer, and a Rube Goldberg at rigging devises to offset my grandmother's disabling rheumatoid arthritis.
Either of them could kick the denizen's of Make Magazine's butts at inventiveness. Now me... I need to get to work if I'm going to survive the Zombie uprising.
Posted by: Steph Mineart on July 13, 2008 02:52 PM
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