useful with all of that Homeland Security money that we gave them . . . ?

Though I have NO idea why that would include weapons' use, simulated or otherwise.

I cry for my hometown

Reverting to pre-US times to survive.

What does that mean? That if US is not a technocratic monster ethnociding indigenous peoples and destroying horticultural etc. sustainable ways of life, it's not US?

What about Johnny Appleseed? Thoreau? Hippies and Rainbow people? Millions of American gardeners and family farmers? Have they been contemporary Americans or anti-Americans?

Even accepting that, the correct temporal relation would be post-US, not pre-US.

about gardening etc. since that. That's something we have been very good at for a long time, and keep on getting better. Horticulture is very progressive.

When PO awareness was becoming more common, there was a book and movie called 'End of Suburbia' with wide audience. What we are seeing in Detroit and elsewhere, however, is not the end, but rebirth.

were into sustainability long before the first Europeans arrived. Depending on the society and the terrain.

They probably learned shortly after wiping out most of the larger mammals on the continent....

And the scope is almost unimaginable nowadays, all of California a food forest tended by Indian fires etc., the pre-Columbian Amazon civilization of which we only now beginning to learn about, etc.

Those are old skills that we can relearn, but we have also new skills to add to the mix. Many plants have been using humans very effectively to spread them to new areas and to widen their gene spool. Johnny Appleseed is just one, but classic example, of a human serving a plant, which gave him also the name by which he is best known. Sometimes things go kudzu, from our limited human point of view, but that too is... interesting. Besides edible and medicinal.

Wood-burning on the days it is allowed, growing own food and sharing, making own clothes, doing without, the list goes on.

not to inform residents or even fire department of the drill.

desensitizing and media-stupefying is unbelievable. And it works. DU would have completely freaked out if this shit went down during the Bush administration, but now a GD thread about it is 'creative speculation'.

It must suit more of their purposes than just their economics.