– I’ve been on for sometime about New Zealand, as any long term reader of this Blog knows.  Indeed, my wife and I have secured resident visas for NZ as a sort of insurance policy. Â
– This means that we now have the permanent right to live there, if we want to for the rest of our lives. And, we may well do so when we’re ready to retire.Â
– If the world begins to crumble as a result of the numerous threats that I an others have detailed, then moving there will certainly look like a good move.
– We’re not the only folks to think so. Â I came across a reference to the article, below, on a friend’s Blog and I found it interesting reading, indeed.
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Is the end really, finally nigh? And if it is, what are you going to do about it? John McCrone meets some South Islanders who are getting ready for the end of the world as we know it.
The ‘twin tsunamis’ of global warming and peak oil could spell TEOTWAWKI – the end of the world as we know it – and already, quietly, some people are getting prepared because they believe we are talking years rather than decades.
Helen, a petite 42-year-old Nelson housewife, is racing to build her own personal TEOTWAWKI lifeboat.
Earlier this year, she and her American husband cashed-up to buy a 21ha farm in a remote, easily defensible, river valley backing onto the Arthur Range, north-west of Nelson.
The site ticks the right boxes. Way above sea level. Its own spring and stream. Enough winter sun. A good mix of growing areas. A sprinkling of neighbouring farms strung along the valley’s winding dirt-track road.
The digger was to arrive this week to carve out the platform for an adobe eco-house. A turbine in the stream will generate power. A composting toilet will deal with sewage.
Then there is the stuff that could really get her labelled as a crank (and why she would prefer to remain relatively anonymous, at least until she is completely set up). Back at her rented house in Nelson, Helen shows the growing collection of horse-drawn ploughs, wheat grinders, treadle sewing machines and other rusting relics of the pre-carbon era, she believes she will need the day the petrol pumps finally run dry. here is the library of yellowing books from colonial times, telling how to make your own soap, spin candlewicks, care for clydesdale horses.
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– research thanks to Brian C.