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What would your contribution be for a book put together to restart a a civilization? (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by qyron@sopuli.xyz to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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The title is a bit over dramatic but, per the title, if you could contribute with one piece of knowledge to a book that every single individual should learn from in order to kickstart a civilization, what would be yours?

My personal choice would be the process of soap making, from scratch.

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[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 11 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

The basics of manufacturing fertiliser. It's a lot easier to build a civilisation on a full belly.

Also, funny story, I already have a disk like this started.

[–] tshannon@beehaw.org 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Ever since covid hit, I've been keeping digital copies of several books like the following:

Reader's Digest DIY Manual
The Forager's Harvest - A Guide to Identifying Harvesting and Preparing Edible Wild Plants by Samuel Thayer
The Complete Guide to Edible Wild Plants
Back to Basics - Abigail R. Gehring And of course a copy of Wikipedia.

I haven't gone full "prepper", but seeing how fast things went sideways at the beginning of covid, it makes me feel a little better to set aside a little bit of hard drive space, just in case.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 10 months ago

You can get full offline copies of Wikipedia too, eh? I use Kiwix for most of the stuff on mine.