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How long to rebuild civilisation after an all out nuclear war?
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<blockquote data-quote="eclipsenow" data-source="post: 75132017" data-attributes="member: 274355"><p>America alone has heaps of government bunkers that have everything to rebuild civilisation already in them, including all the knowledge. Watch this one - it mentions Mount Weather - which rings a bell if you've seen "The 100"? (That's my B-grade sci-fi for when I'm sick.)</p><p>[MEDIA=youtube]bp-_MbpWKpc[/MEDIA]</p><p></p><p>These places are already loaded with all the knowledge we need - but the official plans are also to take certain individuals as well. </p><p></p><p style="margin-left: 20px">In truth, the depth and breadth of continuity planning — which focuses not just on surviving the catastrophe but also on rebuilding the country’s economy, society and democracy afterward — means that plans over the years have also gone further. Officials have imagined saving certain titans of industry, who would help restore the economy: President Dwight Eisenhower selected CBS News’s Theodore Kopp to be the head of a wartime censorship bureau, and a half-dozen other private-sector leaders to be national wartime economic czars. Other plans called for a “Doomsday press corps,” reporters who would be flown to the bunkers to help communicate with the public, and some companies like Shell Oil and Standard Oil even built their own bunkers for their executives.</p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/five-myths/five-myths-about-continuity-of-government/2020/04/01/675dbe26-736a-11ea-85cb-8670579b863d_story.html" target="_blank">https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/five-myths/five-myths-about-continuity-of-government/2020/04/01/675dbe26-736a-11ea-85cb-8670579b863d_story.html</a></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p><p>Now here's a personal story. Years ago a family crisis elevated my general anxiety to the point where one of those peak oil doomer websites from the mid 2000's freaked me out. I got quite concerned about the state of the world, and looked into the whole doomsday prepper permaculture farm thing, and bought a few books on it. I never did leave my beloved Sydney, and those books are still on my shelves. They discuss everything from how to store food for long periods to how to do low tech chemistry, low tech refrigeration (without moving parts or engines, just some fire to cool!), and even how to make steel. Yup, steel. Some even talk about how to maintain good communities and set up your own local laws after a disaster, that sort of local culture building.</p><p></p><p>If I have them on my shelves - and I only flirted with this stuff - imagine what the hard corps true believers have? Also, steel can be recycled. We won't have to mine iron ore for generations - steel is abundant in our cities.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="eclipsenow, post: 75132017, member: 274355"] America alone has heaps of government bunkers that have everything to rebuild civilisation already in them, including all the knowledge. Watch this one - it mentions Mount Weather - which rings a bell if you've seen "The 100"? (That's my B-grade sci-fi for when I'm sick.) [MEDIA=youtube]bp-_MbpWKpc[/MEDIA] These places are already loaded with all the knowledge we need - but the official plans are also to take certain individuals as well. [INDENT]In truth, the depth and breadth of continuity planning — which focuses not just on surviving the catastrophe but also on rebuilding the country’s economy, society and democracy afterward — means that plans over the years have also gone further. Officials have imagined saving certain titans of industry, who would help restore the economy: President Dwight Eisenhower selected CBS News’s Theodore Kopp to be the head of a wartime censorship bureau, and a half-dozen other private-sector leaders to be national wartime economic czars. Other plans called for a “Doomsday press corps,” reporters who would be flown to the bunkers to help communicate with the public, and some companies like Shell Oil and Standard Oil even built their own bunkers for their executives. [URL]https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/five-myths/five-myths-about-continuity-of-government/2020/04/01/675dbe26-736a-11ea-85cb-8670579b863d_story.html[/URL] [/INDENT] Now here's a personal story. Years ago a family crisis elevated my general anxiety to the point where one of those peak oil doomer websites from the mid 2000's freaked me out. I got quite concerned about the state of the world, and looked into the whole doomsday prepper permaculture farm thing, and bought a few books on it. I never did leave my beloved Sydney, and those books are still on my shelves. They discuss everything from how to store food for long periods to how to do low tech chemistry, low tech refrigeration (without moving parts or engines, just some fire to cool!), and even how to make steel. Yup, steel. Some even talk about how to maintain good communities and set up your own local laws after a disaster, that sort of local culture building. If I have them on my shelves - and I only flirted with this stuff - imagine what the hard corps true believers have? Also, steel can be recycled. We won't have to mine iron ore for generations - steel is abundant in our cities. [/QUOTE]
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