Most prepping is bullshit, right wing fantasy jerking. How they’ll be the lone man in an unjust land, killing and pillaging as they please. Realistically, if there’s an event that there’s a global collapse, you’ll likely die from it as well.

Nuclear war? Best hope you’re in a target zone, you don’t want to try and live through a nightmare where growing food may be impossible. Your canned goods will run out in months unless you can supplement them.

Global pandemic beyond what COVID-19 was? Yeah, COVID sucked, but it had a rather low kill rate. A super bug that has a rate to kill society as we know it around the globe is going to spread quickly, easily, and be highly deadly by comparison. You’re more likely to contract it and die than survive.

Climate change? You may be able to survive this one but you’ll need to think of how high waters will rise, how that’ll effect local growing ecology for food, etc. It’s going to be insanely rough.

Any other plausible event? Again, it requires a massive die off in a short time or just general destructiveness that’ll kill a lot of people initially then everyone slowly afterwards.

I’m very lucky in that I have a good job, home, land and some strong skills. So, most of my model isn’t realistic for the majority. But anyway, I operate a small farm as a kind of side business/learning experiment to raise livestock/honey/eggs/ grow crops. As an mechanical/stationary engineer I’ve also set up a good failsafe system of temporary generators assuming my solar setup is damaged or loses functionalality. As well as plenty of resources I’ll need assuming I cant get power regardless (alt light sources, hard-core cold gear, water collection and purification, ect) I’m trained with firearms but hope I’ll never have to use them outside the range. I do a good bit of canning and live essentially out in the woods with no neighbors for about a mile in any direction. I have accumulated tools that can handle most projects that may come up (maintenence is not pretty but unbelievably important). Again i recognize my situation isn’t realistic for the majority. That said, anyone in any situation can learn basic skills like canning, sewing, self defense (armed or not) and basic structure maintenance.

If something happens I will try my best to die at the first blast. I am too old and tired and blasee for any apocalypse.

Plans are already in place. I’m gonna kick back, watch Blast from the Past, and kiss my ass goodbye while I get good and drunk/messed up. It’s the same thing I do during storm season. I’ve started from literal nothing too many times. I refuse to do it again.

Know your neighbors, befriend your neighbors, when the collapse happens you’ll need food in your gardens sure, but you’ll need your neighbors to think you’re more than a spare pantry when their food gets low, even better if you like each other enough to form a real community thats more defendable and resilient than any single household could be

Been learning to garden for a few years. This year I’m focusing on perennials, specifically heirloom species that were staple food crops prior to the modern industrial era.

Turns out pretty much every non native plant in North America is a food crop. These plants often have superiour nutritional content as well as being more drought resistant, hardy, and ecologically sustainable.

A few to google.

Bambara ‘Beans’ - West African Staple for 300 years. All 9 amino acids. Bio available B12. Grows like legumes. Nitrogen fixer

Bamboo - Edible varieties have lots of fiber and potassium, some protein and low fat.

Old King Henry - Edible shoots like asparagus, edible leaves like spinach, edible grainlike seeds similar to quinoa

Skirret - clumping root vegetable that looks like carrots. Has higher carb density than carrots.

Comfrey - Top Tier mulch/fertilizer.

Clover - Edible nitrogen fixer

Dandelions - Edible nitrogen fixer

Cat Tails - Indigenous, all parts are edible, winter survival crop.

Ashitaba - apparently this plant has insane nutritional benefits for the body and originates from an Okinawan island with the longes average lifspan in the world.

by making peace with death

I always see some truly naive optimism in threads like these. Global collapse means shipping is dead, which means every city is in a state of famine.

Pick your closest city, split the population in 4 for each cardinal direction and run some rough estimates on how many will be walking near your door. That’s ignoring all the people in your own town that don’t have gardens.

I know I have close to a million people coming my way, and someone’s going to kill me for my little dozen potatoes. You can’t fight off that many people with a handful of neighbors. It also takes a shit load of gardening to keep a family of 4 alive.

If your plan doesn’t involve getting the fuck out of dodge and having a cache of food somewhere remote (with a cottage or small cabin if you live in a winter region), it will fail.

Looking up closest shop for arms. Will likely be visiting places to test things out.

First of all, even the odds a bit by keeping the knowledge of how to survive to yourself.

I mean I’m barely alive with depression… guess I’ll just die and hope to get reincarnated to a better world next time (if there even is such a thing as “next time”)