>Growing food is not that hard. If necessity calls for it, people can learn to do it sufficiently well from books and neighbors. Disagree. It's pretty hard, fr

>Growing food is not that hard. If necessity calls for it, people can learn to do it sufficiently well from books and neighbors. Disagree. It's pretty hard, from a cold start, to reach the point of producing a significant number of calories independently. It's a far cry from keeping a veggie/herb garden, and even harder in turn to do it over a number of successive years. Also, if we're specifically considering a scenario without power, the preservation of that food through the year is a major challenge in itself. >More challenging issues are access to clean drinking water and fertile land, safety from pillaging, and getting proper medical care. Absolutely agree.