What an amazing thought. Crypto communities as powerful as nations. Much appreciated. This will help with my overall vision for the future.

Since we moved to the french pyrenees from an eco community in Bali two years ago I have been trying to attract others to join us here and start working on our own community but for now all my friends and family are so lost in the deception, with no sense of urgency. Once people see how we are unaffected by food shortages here I believe they will start coming. If they still can.

Why Africa? I considered going back to Asia (my father spent most of his life in the Philippines) but for some reason I never felt as comfortable there as I did in Africa. I suppose the main reason I have focused on that as our current goal is because I think we can get there from here, even if the world is in chaos. But we must remain here for now, to benefit from the upcoming food shortages.

Nothing is fixed in concrete as a plan and I am interested to hear all options. But I also happen to believe Africa is coming back on-line as an agricultural nation. Everything works in cycles here on earth and during the next generation the deserts will bloom again, providing unique opportunities to thrive when most other places are in decline. The Chinese seem to know this, buying up as much land as they can. Funnily enough I was reading a crypto article yesterday and I noticed that even the man behind Cardano seems to understand this:

“Given that the human capital, physical capital, and economics are all moving in the right direction, it is my belief that Africa will be the most promising economic environment in the next ten years,” Hoskinson concluded.

In order to survive a Grand Solar Minimum comfortably I believe one needs to be near the equator. If this GSM is anything like the last we will see the northern & southern hemispheres getting very cold, forcing the collapse of local agriculture.

You may be interested to see this list of skills I posted a few months back: @samstonehill/25-skills-that-are-going-to-be-in-demand-if-we-re-all-thrown-back-on-our-own-resources

Obviously with children (3&5years) one can only keep it simple and it seems to me it is more about them seeing their parents doing something repeatedly at this age. Growing food, foraging & preserving for winter have been the main focus this year. With the occasional wild day in which I show them how to build shelter, make fire, snare rabbits... that kind of thing.

For the last year I've been collecting useful information and sharing it in a downloadable format through LBRY: https://lbry.tv/@survival-archive:6
My advice to people is to store this info off-line on a small device like a phone or ipad which can be easily charged with a small solar panel.

There is something else I have been doing for the last few months, but it would not be prudent of me to discuss it here in public.

Do you have a protonmail account?

Perhaps we can continue this conversation there.

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