Perhaps the most widespread evil is the Western view of man and nature. Among us, it is widely believed that man is apart from nature, superior to it; indeed, evolution is a process to create man and seat him on the apex of the cosmic pinnacle. He views the earth as a treasury that he can plunder at will. And, indeed, the behavior of Western people, notably since the advent of the Industrial Revolution, gives incontrovertible evidence to support this assertion.

— Ian McHarg, 1971

It has often been said that, if the human species fails to make a go of it here on the Earth, some other species will take over the running. In the sense of developing intelligence this is not correct. We have or soon will have, exhausted the necessary physical prerequisites so far as this planet is concerned. With coal gone, oil gone, high-grade metallic ores gone, no species however competent can make the long climb from primitive conditions to high-level technology. This is a one-shot affair. If we fail, this planetary system fails so far as intelligence is concerned. The same will be true of other planetary systems. On each of them there will be one chance, and one chance only.

— Sir Fred Hoyle, 1964

The Fall of Civilization is coming. Hard times are ahead.

Life After the Oil Crash
Energy and Human Evolution

For years, the oil companies have been reporting a reduction in the rate of discovery in new oil fields. Production (or exploitation) of these fields has historically lagged discovery by about 30 years. It is possible to calculate, at least approximately, when this era of cheap power and easy transport will come to a more-or-less screeching halt. Worldwide production of crude oil will peak in about six years (about 2007) and begin a permanent decline, halving each 25 years thereafter.

For all practical purposes, this means no more fuel-oil, no more propane, no more gasoline, no more diesel fuel, no more kerosene, and no more plastics by 2050 or so. The only large-scale replacement resource is nuclear power, which in the United States has not been developed anywhere near the extent that would be required—including the necessary breeder reactors to convert U238 to the useable fuel PL239. Furthermore, nuclear reactors would be targets for terrorist attacks. Don't count on having electricity or heating fuel from utility companies for long after 2020.

Originally, I said "...for long after 2010." My early estimate of the decline in petroleum based electric power was probably pessimistic by ten or maybe even 15 years. But nevertheless, the end will come within your lifetime, so you should make ready for it.

First, if you live in a city—MOVE! Cities will have gas and oil longer than the countryside does, but you can't wait until the city resources are depleted and then relocate. There's simply too much work to be done fixing up your backwoods retreat between now and the Fall of Civilization. Also, gangs of marauders in the city will be much more concentrated and desperate than those in the countryside. You should pick an area like the one I currently have in the West Virginia mountains: a relatively high elevation ensures that the wind will often be blowing across my property, plus an enough trees on my land to ensure that I'll always have fallen branches to scavenge for firewood.

Someone suggested that agriculture could replace oil when the global supply of petroleum runs short. No way. Burning alfalfa stems and corn stalks harvested from all across a state-sized region might power one city, but only one city, in that region. Minnesota could keep St. Cloud lit after the oil die-off, but the rest of the state would be in the dark.

Wind power—windmill generators coupled to simple chemical batteries and electrical inverters—might be used by families and small community groups. For heating and cooking, however, you'd probably better bet on returning to wood-burning stoves by 2015. Wood-powered steam engines, lubricated with heavy vegetable oils, might be developed for operating farm equipment. Horses can do work and provide some transport in exchange for grass in the summer, hay in the winter, and scraps periodically. Low technology solar power involving the use of absorptive and reflective surfaces to regulate heat transfer might be used to some extent. High technology solar power is expensive to implement, but might be worth investing in if you have the necessary cash, live in a sunny area, and don't have enough wind for wind turbines to be worthwhile.

Here are some websites where you can examine some wind-turbine generator systems.

Be sure to find the turbine that you think you'll need, and keep in mind that you will also need a bank of batteries to hold energy and a power inverter to change it from DC to AC for your appliances. Keep all of your components compatible with each other and consistent with your needs. For example, don't buy a weenie little inverter that can't put out the power that you'll require in alternating current. And remember that your electrical wire must be rated for the most amps that you'll ever need to draw. Wire that is too thin will melt and/or cause a fire.

You'll probably want to investigate ways to acquire and store water, such as cisterns filled by rain running off your roof. Your cistern should be elevated above the level of your faucets, so that you can still get water out of the tap. Remember: electrical pumps won't work without electricity. You'll also need to acquire and preserve food, so study up on gardening, animal husbandry, butchering, salting, drying, and canning. If you have a freezer, keep it full and don't open the door unnecessarily. An alternative power system can easily keep a freezer going, if you're careful.

Guns.

I should mention that you might want to acquire, if you haven't already, a few guns and a large supply of ammunition. There's going to be an awful lot of unprepared Liberals and Blacks who think that you owe them some or all of your wealth, just because you knew better than to share their faith in Big Government. And they'll kill you to get it—if they can, that is. The first years of the Fall of Civilization will probably be marked by violence carried out mainly by firearms. You'll want to be the LAST person in your neighborhood still to have bullets.

Guns are designed for different purposes.

Some are small enough to hide while you're carrying it. The secret possession of a weapon can be an advantage. Your enemy might be tricked into thinking that you are helpless in his power, when you aren't, and in his false sense of security, he might let his guard down. That's when you show him how wrong he is.

Some guns are optimized for accuracy, most especially long rifles, but also target pistols. The accuracy of such weapons can be enhanced (substantially) by mounting scopes on them. An accurate gun can be an economical way to pick off approaching enemies at distance, before they're close enough to shoot back.

Some guns are designed mainly for punch, namely the larger caliber pistols and rifles, and the shotgun when it is shooting slugs. You'd use one of these to penetrate light armor or obstructions thus making your enemies' tactical refuges less advantageous.

And some guns are made for decimation. In this category we have the sawed-off shotgun and the machine gun.

Bear in mind, as you plan your after-the-Fall arsenal, that you aren't trying to survive a week, but for a long lifetime. Until another civilization emerges from the chaos, one that doesn't require fossil fuels, you're going to have to ward off, preferably by threat, but possibly by killing, any number of hostile persons who will attempt to harm your family or steal what is yours. Unless you are financially better-off than most Americans are, you will need to economize with your weapon and ammo selections.

You must maintain, always, a firepower advantage relative to your enemies. In a situation of scarcity, where your only ammunition is what you bought before the Fall, you won't want to squander any of it. If you are given time enough to make choices, you shouldn't use your best ammunition when a lower grade would serve. For most home defense situations, a .22 caliber weapon will serve adequately. The thief who gets shot with one while trying to sneak through your bathroom window will squeal like a pig, and maybe die too! If he doesn't die fast enough, shoot him again and deliver a coup-de-grace with a large knife. These weapons should be your home defense mainstay. Every member of your household should have one at all times, though to be sure it shouldn't be charged or cocked until required to fire, and it shouldn't ever be fired frivolously. And some .22 pistols can be made harder to hear, but nevermind that now. The main advantage to the bullets is their being dirt-cheap. You can easily stock .22 rounds by the tens of thousands, and you should.

A .22 rifle with a scope is also very useful for hunting small game, such as rabbits and squirrels. You'll want to get a few traps for catching them without using guns, but when the opportunity arises you can get meat for the stewpot with a .22 rifle.

Each of your semi-automatic weapons should be augmented with several spare clips, in case rapid reloading is required. You should practice loading and unloading your revolvers until you can do it rapidly without looking.

You should have (unless you have a better idea), the following weapons:

1. A small pistol for each member of the family, with 1000 rounds or more of suitable ammunition for each that is not .22 caliber. Few things are as useless as a small pistol that has no bullets to shoot.

2. A pair of .22 target pistols, e.g. S&W model 41 or Ruger mark 2. Scopes are a plus. Extra clips are required.

3. A pair of .22 long rifles, both with scopes. Magazine-fed is a plus.

4. At least one .357 magnum revolver.

5. At least one high-powered rifle firing a standard cartridge, such as the NATO .308, with a scope.

6. At least one, but preferably two, abbreviated 12-gauge shotguns. Don't do the abbreviating until after the civil order breaks down.

7. 25000 rounds of .22 ammunition (minimum)

8. 1000 rounds of .357 ammunition (minimum)

9. 500 rounds suitable for your high-powered rifle (minimum)

10. 500 shells of number four 12-gauge shot (minimum)

11. An assortment of swords, awls, axes and knives—the bullets will be gone one day.

12. Supplies for cleaning, repairing and maintaining the above.

The ammunition alone will probably cost a couple thousand dollars, so take your time accumulating this stuff. Unless you have that much shaking around in your pocket. Depending on which pistols and rifles you buy, you can expect to pay $200 to $800 for each. No hurry. You've got six years or so. You'll want to be getting that wood-burning stove and that windmill-generator working too. Don't forget the elevated cistern (preferably inside your house so enemies can't run up and pee in your house water).

To satisfy the home defense requirement of being able to poke a hole in any light armor that enemies might be wearing or hiding behind, I recommended a .357 magnum for several reasons. First, the ammo is just about at the upper limit of what I regard as affordable. Second, .357 handguns produce a recoil that is barely within what (most) ladies can handle. Third, you can shoot the slightly less expensive .38 caliber bullets with a .357 magnum handgun. Fourth, the .357 magnum rounds have awesome punch (they are also very loud). I'm less particular about the rifle, as long as it fires a large, standard cartridge, but a .308 is a good choice.

Now, about the shotgun. Once in a blue moon, during times of chaos, your home might be targeted by a whole mob of "hostile people" bent on murder, rape, arson, destruction and other bad things. At least one defender within the home needs to send flying metal rapidly enough, and with great enough dispersion, to reduce your enemies to the point where the rest can be "mopped up" with handguns. Because shotgun shells are expensive, you probably won't be able to buy them by the thousands, so you should never use your shotgun when a lesser weapon would do adequate service.

Let me make a comment about explosives. Normally, you won't have any home defense need for dynamite or demolition charges, though there are a number of other uses (landscaping, tree stump removal) for such things. However, marauders might use them for attacking your home, and thus a reason arises for you to have, hidden carefully in a very secret place, at least a small supply of explosives. The reason is VENGEANCE. You don't want the attackers to blow up your house and not suffer a suitable reprisal. If they destroy yours, then you destroy theirs. If they understand from the beginning that they'll lose theirs if they break yours, then they'll be less likely to attempt the destruction of your property. Makes sense, doesn't it? "Deterrence" worked as the anti-nuclear war policy between the USA and the USSR for over 20 years. It can, therefore, also keep the peace between you and your more aggressive neighbors after the Crash.

Politics.

The world's per capita petroleum production (the ratio of barrels sold to the world's population) peaked in 1979. We've been in a mild "slide" downward ever since then. The production in absolute terms will peak somewhere between 2006 and 2008. Around 2012, the drop-off in energy will accelerate, and by 2020 some of the evils that I'm predicting will have come to pass. However, the world's total population will continue to grow until 2045. The world's non-Whites will continue to breed for a while. But after 2045, the non-White portion of the world that is incompetent to feed itself will starve en masse. And in a sense, it may be a good thing that the planet is running out of gas now, rather than dragging on for 50 more years. When the squeeze is on, the worthless races that we have been propping up will suffer the most rapid losses. When the US government can't take sides with the browns and blacks any longer, White America will finally be rid of its minority presence, though it will be a hard fight especially in the American south and southwest. (Don't worry about the US Government subsidizing windmills and such in African countries. The niggers will destroy them in one of their rampages before long.)

The nature of economic polarization will be between haves and have-nots will sharpen, both at the international level, as rival governments compete for the last barrels of oil, and within each country between individuals and communities. People in industrialized countries, such as the United States, have become degenerate and unskilled at the basic arts of survival: farming, building, crafts, and generally making things work. They've become biologically degenerate, too: a lot of diabetics and other medically challenged people will die when their medicines and other life support systems are unavailable. And some people, who read stuff like this and get scared, will make only inadequate provisions for the Fall of Civilization, which, they think, will demonstrate that "they tried." Their hope is that they will be rewarded for "trying" by someone who tried harder. They will be disappointed.

As governments grow increasingly concerned with each other, they won't have much umph to spare for "justice" in every last district that they claim nominally as their jurisdiction. That means lesser wolves will go on the prowl without having to worry so much about the government's police—this has already begun to happen, and now you know why. In the post-Crash world, you will have natural allies and natural enemies, and your life will depend, nearly every time, on identifying them correctly. Your allies are, mainly, neighbors with whom you can work out a mutually beneficial trading and cooperative working relationship. However, each morning you should ask yourself, whether from your neighbor's point of view the relationship is still valuable. If he is thinking about his relationship with you right now, then is he likely to conclude that continuing to trust you has more advantage to him than what he might gain through betrayal or subtrafuge or shutting you out? You'll need an accurate estimate of his intelligence (how far into the future he can see) and his character (the extent to which his values are consistent with yours) in order to make reliable estimates.

Friends aren't properties that you acquire and possess forever after. They require constant maintenance. A friendship is a balancing act in which two people help each other while being careful not to presume too far by seeking more aid than the partner has received or by seeking more aid than the partner is physically able to deliver. The diplomacy of friendship requires that costs and benefits not be tallied up with undue formality or explicitness. Nonetheless, everyone subconsciously does keep such a tally. Your neighbor will be doing this. And so will you. Make sure accounts balance at least approximately. If you think that your neighbor's sense of "balance" involves his thumb being pressed down on his end of the scales, then comes the time for an explicit counting up of the contributions that you each have made to the other's well-being. If this does not move him, and if you still think that you are right after you've heard him state his case, then it is time for a permanent parting of the ways. The friendship is over. Your new relationship will crystalize into one of two new forms: a cold peace or mutual hostility.

Cold peace is usually the result when both of partners believe that the dispute over the cost-benefit analysis involved no deliberate attempt to conceal, disparage or exaggerate the facts. You simply had different ideas about what was worth how much, and it wasn't possible to find a mutually agreeable settlement. An amicable dissolution of the partnership is possible. On the other hand, maybe one of you believes that the other was fully aware of an inexcusable imbalance in the partnership; that is, one of you thinks that the other was being a sponger, which is a kind of thief. In hard times, a thief is always a deadly enemy. A peaceful parting of company is unlikely.

Humans are primates, and thus there will always be someone who tries to "dicker" himself into a dominant role in a master-servant relationship. I've met a few of these fellows. One of them tried to overcharge me for a horse and, after I refused to buy, offered me a "deal" in which I could ride one of his horses for a while, if I would undertake to feed and groom it, and let it stay on my land, without charge to him. I laughed in his face and left. This kind of operator is a cross between a bandit and a sponger, usually characterized by firm-handshakes, direct-looks, teeth-baring-smiles and "this is the way things are" types of sales pitches. He's inflexible; you are to do all the accomodating and conceding. Unless you have no choice in the matter, you should do what I did: laugh in his face and leave. He'll annoy the wrong man sooner or later, and someone will hang his ass.

A friendship is a very good thing to have, and most Whites are good enough and smart enough not to toss them to the winds through deviousness. But the rule does have exceptions. Watch your back.

Your natural enemies are those who want to take advantage from you without a proper reciprocal payment. The obvious enemies are the burglar (stealthy thief) and the bandit (bold thief). Burglars sometimes try to imitate trespassers when they are caught on approach; they'll tell you that they are lost, which way to the highway, etc. If you've posted your property adequately, you can assume that he's lying and kill him. Otherwise, he might be telling the truth, and the proper responses range from yelling "GET THE HELL OUT OF HERE" punctuated with a warning shot to providing friendly advice on the quickest way back to the highway.

But there's also the sponger who tries to get you off guard with a sob-story about how hungry his kids are. Why didn't he think of his kids when there was food to gather? It's probably best to let nature get rid of the genes for stupidity. And there's the cheater, who gets you to help him build his house with a promise to help you build your house afterward, but then reneges. It doesn't matter whether he reneges with an apology or with a laugh: he's your enemy, either way. The borrower who does not return your property is a cheater and is, therefore, your enemy. Basically every kind of thief is your enemy—kill them.

You must draw a line around what is yours, and you must guard that line with force. It is possible that your enemies will be too strong for you. But it is certain that you will die if you do not guard your property. The wolf is mortal, but he is safer than the sheep. Your chances are better if, having prepared for the Crash, you shoot to kill and make it plain that you will deal with all threats in the same way. Don't waste your breath on making too many threats (though a few might be helpful). Never repeat yourself when making threats—it suggests that you aren't sure of your ability to carry them out. Just follow through, and the propaganda of the deed will eliminate all doubts about your will and your ability.

The reaction of other people to your killing somebody will, generally speaking, fall into two groups. In the first group will be the people who will (once they know the facts) say, "I don't blame him. I'd have done it, too, if I had been him." Honest juries are always primarily composed of people of this sort, who don't condemn another for doing what they would have done themselves. In the second group will be those who will think badly of you on account of the killing. These folks, in turn, will fall into category 2a (angry, but fearful of your power) and category 2b (angry, planning on revenge). For example, if you shoot the rapist who assaults your daughter, you might also, later, have to shoot his three brothers, his uncle, and some of his dogs. That's how it's got to be, unless you want your daughter to be easy pickings for every rapist who happens along.

(By the way, you can often estimate the position of your social order, along the spectrum from "golden age" to "total corruption" by the ratio of the number of people in category #1 to the number of people in category #2. To be more accurate, you'd have to weight each person by his power or influence in society. But in general, the higher is the proportion of people who wouldn't condemn you for a killing that they'd have done themselves, if they'd been in your place, the closer to a golden age society yours is.)

Race will certainly affect the political scene after the Fall of Civilization. The old National Socialist dictum that your skin is your uniform will make a comeback. Jews and Blacks are primarily city dwellers. The Jews live in cities because cities are the nerve centers for a nation; they are where the levers of power are pushed; they are where the flow of trade and finance converge; they are the loci from which Jews exploit gentiles. Or, anyway, they were. Blacks live in cities because it's a shorter walk to the welfare office. But after the Crash, cities will become hell-holes of violence that will make most prisons today seem tame. Blacks will be killing (and eating) anything and anyone that they can catch. Remember The Turner Diaries? When the food supplies run out in US cities, the Blacks will be catching children (the White ones first) and keeping them in basement cages until supper time. Then a Black man will go down there with a butcher knife and prepare the evening meal.

In time, as hunger and disease take their toll, the cities will depopulate. There won't be any Whites left in them, as the non-Whites will have overwhelmed them either with greater numbers or with a superior degree of racial organization. After the Whites are gone, Black and Hispanic gangs will gang up on each other, while the Jews play both ends against the middle by offering their "help" to both sides. By the time the Black/mestizo groups figure out what the Jews are up to, they'll have decimated each other's ranks so badly that the Jewish fighters, such as the JDL, can handle the rest. Personally, I'd prefer that the Blacks and Hispanics wise up soon enough to get rid of the Jews, but they probably won't.

The windfall for the White race is that it is dispersed through the countryside in higher proportion, whereas the non-White groups are clustered in the cities. The countryside is going to be the survivable region; the cities are going to be the place of violent death. Of course, not all minorities are in the cities. There will be plenty of niggers and spics roaming around looking for White girls to rape, for White food to eat, for White guns to steal. Your job, White man, is to stop them from doing these things. Think you're up to it?

One thing to keep in mind, whether you are one of us White nationalists or whether you are a US government military strategist. The Chinese will find it absolutely necessary to make an all-out attempt to gain more territory for their population, and, out of all the countries in the world, they pose the greatest threat to Whites. Their infantry is good. They have nuclear weapons (thanks to the Jews). And they have the means to deliver those weapons to Europe and America (thanks to traitors). And they have electronics (thanks to Jews and more traitors). Assuming we get rid of the mestizos and the Blacks, we could have an even larger problem with a Chinese invasion. So, Whites, that's another reason not to use up all your ammunition in clashes with Blacks and Hispanics. The Chinese have kept their steel and tool industries in good order, while ours has rusted with the greed of cheap-labor-loving capitalists. The Chinese were the first to make gunpowder, and they may be the last able to manufacture bullets.

I expect that the commercial availability of petroleum products will shrink faster than the world wide oil production does. The world's governments need these products like you need your bullets—none of them wants to run out of gas before their rivals do. And that means you can expect civilian resources to dry up first (except for rich people and privileged politicians), while the military warehouses them in enormous quantity. You can expect the government to be insensitive to your needs for fuel. You can expect them to be insensitive to your need for guns, too.

Governments like ours can be really dumb during times of crisis. They will pass a law requiring you to surrender your weapons when even the dullest citizen can see civil disorder impending, and expect you to obey it knowing full well that obedience is suicide. Accordingly, you can't afford to remain within the law when the Fall of Civilization draws near, but neither can you afford to advertise your illegality. The government will round up a few people and "make examples of them"—you sit tight. Those were people who made the mistake of buying their guns at gun dealers, were identified to the government during the "background check," and didn't turn in guns that the government knew they had.

Buy your weapons at gun shows, where nobody asks any personal questions as long as you have cash to pay. Then, when the gun grab comes, you can plausibly deny having any guns. The government will make a lot of bluster and stinking smoke about police raids where "gun hiders" were caught, and maybe televise them getting executed. You STILL sit tight. The government bluffs like this all the time, and suckers routinely fall for it out of fear. No matter what the appearances are to the contrary, the government really doesn't know where all the informally bought guns are, and the chances are pretty good that you're in the clear barring a random search or an ex-wife squealing on you. And the government won't have time and resources to search more than a tiny fraction of suspicious characters. Sit tight. Wait.

Don't "take on" government forces unless you've decided to die and that the best way to do it is to make the government risk some of its own troops to kill you. You will lose, of course. The professional soldiers are issued better guns than you can afford to buy, and they've trained in using them at least as much as you have. If a pyrotechnic suicide is what you have in mind, you should study the techniques of ambush and booby trapping. For example, when fifty counter-terrorism soldiers rush into your home, you could press a button and BOOM, your house blows sky-high, and off you go to heaven while fifty wicked souls fall into hell below you. (Jesus came not to bring peace, but guns, bullets, blasting caps and nitroglycerin. Matt. 10:34.)

The time will come when the fuel reserves have been spent. Maybe there will be a war. Maybe the government will have to suppress a large insurrection. But one way or another, the government will be out of gas. No more attack helicopters or jet fighters will be able to fly. No more tanks will be able to roll. If you've hoarded your supplies well enough, you'll be in a position to handle the more mundane threats to yourself and your family. Just remember: survival isn't guaranteed to anybody, and, really, it never was. If White people hadn't forgotten that in their decadent comfort, their danger after the Fall of Civilization would have been greatly lessened. You just do what you have to do, no flinching, take your best shot, and hope for the best.

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