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There's either food, or no food.

And people say, well, we're gonna have food in the

supermarkets on tuesday. We're never gonna see it again.

That's not the way it's gonna happen.

As things break down,

we will see specific shortages

in specific areas for periods of days,

before it gets to the point where there's nothing left.

So what you need to prepare for,

is not the end result, but you need to

prepare to survive the transition.

Uhm, people say, I'm gonna run for the hills,

I'm gonna go build a cabin, I'm gonna buy

they're probably gonna be the first to die.

Number one, it's too late.

If you don't know how to live off the land,

and if you're not already on the land right now,

don't even try to go,

because you're gonna fail miserably,

and you might be shot by the people

who got there ahead of you.

You know, the one factor that you're not including,

in selling this, is this sort of discounting human ingenuity,

uhm, or ability to sort of problem solve.

Because my father was an airforce aviator,

combat veteran,

he was very much trained in a military style

of decision making and analysis,

where it's motivated by life and death decisions,

where you are trained how to think critically,

and respond critically

in response to emergency.

So I was trained at an early age

in the skill of critical thinking.

And maybe I have a gift for it too, I believe there are

some people who have a gift for critical thinking.

Uhm... And my own experience on the streets

in South-Central Los Angeles as a cop,

there were quick decisions sometimes,

decisions which changed people's lives,

or could end people's lives...

And it gave me an ability to respond

and think to separate

the icecream from the bullshit.

Probably one of the biggest impediments

I removed to critical thinking,

was I stopped taking mainstream media

seriously a long time ago.

Uhm, we were talking about human ingenuity.

No amount of technology

and no amount of human ingenuity

can possibly overturn the laws of physics,

the laws which govern this planet.

Uhm, those are intracktable, immutable, real.

And scientists have never been able to do that.

Man's great arrogance, I believe,

and one for which she's paying a price now,

is to believe that mankind

really could become God,

and even turn over and upset and revoke

somehow the laws of the universe.

I am a great advocate of

buying and owning physical gold,

not paper gold.

You buy gold, you own it.

When hyperinflation occurs, after deflation here,

and all these trillions of dollars come back,

and we are wheeling wheel barrels of

thousand dollar bills to buy a loaf of bread,

the only thing people will accept for goods,

is gonna be gold.

Do whatever you can to reinsulate your house

if you need to, if you have a house.

If you have soil, you immediately

get it off petrochemicals,

and start learning how to restore it.

What I do in the yard that I'm renting,

I'm mixing barbeque and wood ash,

and then I go out and pee on everything, because

then you get the root elements of ammonium nitrate.

that starts to bring the soil back.

If you are dependent upon a cell phone,

get a land line.

All of the telecommunication companies

that operate the satellites,

the cell towers, the fiberoptic cables and all the stuff

that makes your wonderful cellphone work,

are cutting back on maintenance

as the stock market collapses,

and we're gonna see failures

in cellphone service.

A landline is a redundancy

that can help you.

Get books on first aid and holistic medicine.

Moderate fresh water supply,

a reasonable amount of food storage,

you can't store enough to live on.

What you need to store, is seeds.

Seeds that are not manufactured by Monsanto,

that are not Franken-seeds that only work

one time you plant them,

and then you gotta go buy more.

You get good organic, whole seeds

and you store them.

That could be a great currency

in the future.

Unlike the great depression,

this is a vastly different scenario.

We do not have infinite resources left to be tapped.

We don't have lots of land. We don't have... We're

peak-everything, all the commodities, everything else.

And what they had in the 1930's,

that my grandparents told me about,

was the ability to grow food right where they live.

And local food production is perhaps

the most fundamental key to human survival,

in the collapse of industrial civilisation.

We've had examples of

what happens when oil disappears,

and how civilizations respond and what

works and what doesn't.

In 1991, the Sovjet-Union collapsed,

and there were two nations

that were absolutely and totally dependent upon

Sovjet oil for their survival, because they had none,

Cuba and North-Korea.

And what they did in response to that,

was completely opposite,

and the proof, as they say,

was in the pudding.

North-Korea was a rigid, hierarchical, top-down,

Sovjet style, bureaucratic regime,

where everything came from the central goverment,

they managed everything,

and North-Korea starved.

I mean, it was...

In human terms, the suffering was amazing.

All of a sudden, there's no oil,

there's no natural gas,

there's no fertilizer,

cars don't run,

trains don't run, you get to a point

where you run trains on some day,

and generate electricity on others,

but you can't do both at the same time.

But the Cuban government reverted

to one of the purest forms of capitalism.

It said, everybody start restoring

the soil and grow food,

you will grow food where you live. If you find

any piece of arable land that's not being used,

you occupy it and you start farming it

and you start growing food right now.

The Cuban goverment did everything it could

to liberate local food growing.

And what happened was, is,

after a very tough period,

the Cuban people were eating better

than they had ever eaten,

because they were free of this whole agro-biz,

you know, Franken-food nightmare.

Everything was organic, and you had

every square inch in Havana that had soil,

on rooftops, or flower boxes,

was growing food.

And, there was a degree of sustainability,

everything became organic.

And all you had to do, was separate the people

from the way money worked, and top-down control,

explain to them, you grow it where you eat it

and you're gonna make it.

And Cuba survived.

And thrived.

And that's the essence of where everything

is going to in the new human paradigm.

Everything will be local.

Jack London was one of my favourite writers.

And uhm, wrote about animals a lot.

One thing you know about animals,

is that they all want to go home

when they know that

they are gonna face death.

They don't wanna be in their tribe,

or their pack, or whatever it is.

Uhm, they want to be on familiar ground,

it's a natural animal instinct.

In Dubai,

the economic crash has hit so hard,

that Indians who were living and working in Dubai,

lost their jobs and they just drove to the Dubai airport and

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