Centralized production of national products will make provisions in a disaster harder to come by. In the long term, the shipments will stop coming altogether. Our cities and urban areas are not set up to be self-reliant and our rural areas will likely be the first cut off from the supply shipments. The earth is changing. Learn about the twelve thousand-year disaster cycle on Suspicious Observers on YouTube. there is no energy source we can switch to or product we can create to stop it. The only thing we can do is prepare. 

Step one is making our communities more resilient. Obviously, food and water are important but we spend a lot of time on The Changing Earth Podcast discussing this aspect. What about home repairs? What about basic sanitation? Do you know the chemicals you need to produce soap, cleaners, medications, or gunpowder? Having a short-term food supply and a long-term one are two different topics. Do you have the supplies you need to preserve food, like salt and vinegar?

Modern lifestyles have completely immersed society in a manufactured existence that is not sustainable and very fragile. Once the dominos start to fall, everyone will have a rude awakening. it is not impossible for American society to return to a simpler lifestyle but it is going to be a difficult transition for all of us.