Two thoughts on this meme - self-reliance is necessary, and self-reliance is not sufficient, because if capitalism destroys the climate your homestead goes with it.
Two thoughts on this meme - self-reliance is necessary, and self-reliance is not sufficient, because if capitalism destroys the climate your homestead goes with it.
My Opa survived the dust bowl.
He had a story of being through a locust swarm that ate the (cotton) clothes he was wearing.
Then he survived WW2 landing at Sicily(first wave) through the Italian and Netherlands campaigns.
Wicked! More stories please, pops…
Would that have been the now extinct Rocky Mountain Locust? Despite the damage they caused to human agriculture, I’ve always felt a bit sad that we extincted them. Seems that their Extinction might have also contributed to the demise of the Eskimo Curlew. It would be cool to see a locust swarm.
That was during the great depression and the “dust bowl” in Manitoba. Based on the dates in the wiki, he wasn’t alive when they went extinct.
Huh, interesting. A quick look at the list of locust species (I love Wikipedia) suggests that it might have been the High Plains Locust, which is rare but still extant, and last swarmed in the 1930s.