Americans Preparing For Social Collapse
Posted on July 10, 2010
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Americans understand that the financial and social structures that support the United States are crumbling. All empires come to an end and the United States is at that end. Every American should prepare now to support themselves and their families. The financial and social support networks that have helped Americans through tough times in the past are falling apart and frankly it is every man for himself.
From the outside, Jerry Erwin’s home in the northwestern US state of Oregon is a nondescript house with a manicured front lawn and little to differentiate it from those of his neighbors.
But tucked away out of sight in his backyard are the signs of his preparations for doomsday, a catastrophic societal collapse that Erwin, 45, now believes is likely within his lifetime.
“I’ve got, under an awning, stacks of firewood, rain catching in barrels, I’ve got a shed with barbed concertina wire, like the military uses,” he told AFP.
He and his wife also have also stockpiled thousands of rounds of ammunition and enough food for about six months.
“Several years ago I worked on paying off the house, replacing all the windows, and just very recently, I’m proud to say, we’ve replaced all our exterior doors with more energy-efficient ones, with as much built-in security features as I could get,” he told AFP.
“Plus I’m going to be adding some more structural improvements to the door frames to make it hopefully virtually impossible to take a battering ram to them.”
Erwin and others like him in the United States and elsewhere see political upheaval and natural disasters as clear signs that civilization is doomed.
“We’re hitting on all cylinders as far as symptoms that have led other great powers to decline or collapse: resource depletion, damage to the environment, climate change, those are the same things that affected other great societies,” he said.
For Erwin, the decline is irreversible and the best approach is to prepare for the inevitable.
Read Full Article Here: More and more Americans preparing for social collapse | Raw Story.
This reminds me that I need to pick up some 12 gauge shotgun slugs on Tuesday…If society is still functioning that is.
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