making it seem
too complicated.
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ZetaTalk: Crop Failure
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As we described earlier, going into the cataclysms the weather will become unpredictable, with torrential rainstorms
where not expected, and droughts likewise where not expected. Extremes of temperature will be experienced.
Unusually warm winters, where the trees and shrubs will start to bud, thinking spring, and then be subjected to frost.
Similarly, frosts will come late in the spring, almost into summer, killing the buds which have already put forth their
tender shoots. Where today the world balances these situations, shipping produce around the world, during the years
coming close to the time of the reappearance of the 12th Planet, the giant comet, all parts of the world will experience
extremes. Of course, leading up to the cataclysms, not all produce will fail. Greenhouse crops will come through.
Backyard gardens, tendered carefully by watchful eyes, will survive. But the large cash crops that supply crowded
population centers will find little to market, and the prices will go up accordingly.
At first, stores put up against such times will be tapped. After a bit, these stores will run down, and governments will
get nervous. Helping handouts, from countries better off to those in desperation, will stop. Friction on these matters
will fray at already frayed nerves. Up until the cataclysms, humans in the main will struggle on with the farming and
fishing methods they are familiar with. In general, the resistance against change is immense, and warnings about the
pending pole shift will be brushed aside by the vast majority who will choose not to notice the signs about them or
contemplate anything so awful. Consequently, the cataclysms will catch almost
Those groups who have prepared, and are relying on themselves and their own carefully tended gardens, will not find
themselves pinched between starvation and hostilities. Fortunately, the easiest produce to grow is that most economical
as foodstuffs. Humans have but to return to their recent past and relearn these lessons. Except for those few who have
prepared, humans surviving the cataclysms will find themselves without food. In the cities this will happen quickly, as
fresh or frozen foods will spoil due to total power failure, and canned and dried goods will only go so far. Then what?
Rural areas, where one would presume to find gardens put in and livestock in abundance, will not be much better off.
The drought and irregular weather will have taken their toll, to say nothing of the cataclysms themselves. How long
will a hungry farmer hand grain to his livestock? He will
hungry enough will eat his last breeding pair and his seed stock. Gone.
Should the reader think that planting and harvesting will go on as before, they should realize that the gloom that
follows a cataclysm is devastating to vegetation. If vegetation survives the droughts that precede the cataclysms and the
hail and firestorms and high winds that occur during the cataclysms then it must next survive an almost continual
deluge and lack of sunlight. The comeback after a cataclysm is not, in the main, from domesticated plants and animals,
although some dedicated farmers will bring their breeding pairs and seed stock through. The comeback is from
wilderness areas, from sturdy roots that keep on trying and scattered seed that keeps on sprouting. In the meantime,
humans starve.
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ZetaTalk: Crop Adjustments
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To a very great extent, adjusting to crop failure depends on the personality of the individual forced to make an
adjustment. We will get specific.
Take, for example, a farm in the Midwest. Prosperous. Several farm hands. Occasional crop failures but in the
main they can smooth their profits to cover these. Now come the crop failures. First year, the usual fallbacks are
relied upon, although with the talk in the news about weather problems all over, they will be nervous. Second
year, everyone gets brittle. Tempers flare. Long-time farm hands are laid off, with much guilt and regret. Plans
are changed, and arguments ensue. However, there are still savings, and perhaps bank credit, and the expectation
is that the next year will bring sky-high prices, even if the crop is only fair-to-middling. Third year. Shock.
Depression, and we're not just talking financial. Personal gardens are producing enough to feed the family, but
the bank would foreclose if they could find a buyer. Everyone thinks of the dust bowl, the depression, and goes
to the movies a lot!
Now, need this be the scenario? Are there no alternatives? Let us say there is a prosperous Midwest farmer
