Rural and farming sectors were no less hard hit: many staple crop prices fell by more than 60%. Primary sector trades like logging and mining simply evaporated in some areas. Many heavy industry sectors were hobbled overnight as personal income fell and so too did demand for products. Some countries saw unemployment as high as an astonishing 35%. International trade had its back broken, declining by more than 50%. Rich and poor alike were severely impacted. Marked by a precipitous decline in stock prices in the United States and followed by the stock market crash in October of 1929, the economic shockwaves circled the globe. One you have probably not prepared for, in all honesty, is a dizzying economic crash the likes of which the civilized modern world has not seen since the Great Depression.īeginning in the year 1929 and lasting all the way until the latter part of the 1930s, the Great Depression was an intense economic decline felt worldwide. Pestilence and plague is one such silent killer that most preppers are already acquainted with and preparing for. That’s easy to understand, and it’s forgivable: if a squeaky wheel gets enough attention to earn a little dab of grease, the howling roar of a tornado or the titanic impact of an asteroid will garner considerably more attention.īut as awful as those loud, scary disasters can be, there are quite a few that are silent, and worse than any storm.
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Things that are big and scary, classical monsters if you will, natural disasters and cataclysms of all kinds seem to hold our attention the most.
The Collapse was a Whisper, Not a Bangįor preppers, it is easy to focus on the loud, the violent and the chaotic. In this article, I’ll be providing you with 50 survival tips gleaned from the hard-won lessons of those who lived through the Great Depression. We should learn what lessons we can from it so we are better prepared to survive the harshest of times in the future. In many ways, this is one of the only true worldwide disasters that resulted in genuine life or death survival situations for a long period of time that we can study from the 20th century. Its effects were felt literally everywhere, from the shores of the New World to the ancient cobblestone streets of European cities and everywhere in between. The Great Depression was nothing less than a worldwide catastrophe. Unemployed men outside food kitchen during the Great Depression
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