I believe in developing multiple options in parallel. Store up food and water as you can (canned foods, dry staples, some MREs and lastly the freeze dried). In doing so you can choose to learn to preserve food, grow some of it, and if you look for local sources you develop contacts for more foodstuffs in good times and bad.
I think being able to build and/or repair SOMETHING is always a good skill nad even more so in long term depression/disaster. Shoes, engines, buildings, electric, plumbing, concrete, gunsmithing, reloading, vehicles, hand tools, sewing. Learn the skill, get the tools, stock on supplies for it, and put it to use now so it is second nature when desperately needed.
Lots of other areas for useful skills such as gardening/farming, raising livestock (even if it is just chickens), HAM, bicycling, hiking, camping, dog training, etc.
It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry, Peace, Peace but there is no peace. The war is actually begun! ... Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!" - Patrick Henry in an address at St. John’s Church, Richmond, Virginia, on March 23, 1775.
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