Category: Preparedness
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Rites of Passage into Unwise Authoritarianism
I often hear things like ‘society is breaking down,’ ‘young people are out of control,’ and ‘we need national service.’ Then I wonder how many of the adults calling for…
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Last Summer My Vegetables Stopped Growing in the Extreme Heat
I’ll be honest: last Summer my Potato harvest was abysmal, & in the extreme heat my vegetables stopped growing; at times, some plants’ leaves wilted. Many died and I know…
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Collapse May Be Beneficial For Us All — According to the Climate Majority Project
The Climate Majority Project Has A Messaging Problem When It Comes To Preparedness & Any Ideas About Survivalism, Partly Because They Don’t Want to Seem Radical, & Because When It…
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Britain Is Water Bankrupt: Beware of Watered-Down Preparedness Advice — Pun Intended
The world entered an era of Global Water Bankruptcy “Published on the occasion of UNU-INWEH’s 30th anniversary, and ahead of the 2026 UN Water Conference, this flagship report, Global Water…
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We Are All Crew During Collapse, So Drop That Stale Old Prepper Trope; It’s Cliché And Reveals A Monumental Lack of Skills
“There are so, so, so, so many scenarios for the apocalypse. Natural disasters: fires, floods, tornadoes. And man-made: biochemical accidents, wars, mass shootings. The stereotype of a prepper—born of the…
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And those who prepare for danger are wise and prudent (Proverbs 22).
Preppers used to be ridiculed — but we’re all stockpiling now The UK government urging households to prepare for unknown threats with a three-day supply of food and water doesn’t…
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Collapse: An overused term that fails to describe the decline of great civilizations
The Financial Times reported that heatwaves have impacted Europe’s potato crop: https://www.ft.com/content/8eda412f-caed-4b31-bdee-b76fc9f3ba82?syn-25a6b1a6=1 (Now a paywalled article) Iran: Drought & Over-Extraction of Water, Coupled with Accelerating Global Climate Heating, already written…
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Xylem Water Filtration: Plant-Based, Sustainable Water Filters Approved by MIT Engineers
The Gold Standard: Settling, Filtration/Flocculation, Chemical Sterilisation (chlorine-based) and Boiling. Water filtration can be achieved with Xylem water filters, sustainably and without expensive equipment. MIT engineers have made filters from…
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Solidarity Prepping: Why I Will Keep Explaining What Solidarity Prepping Is.
Think of yourself as dead. You have lived your life. Now take what’s left and live it properly. – Marcus Aurelius Solidarity Prepping is the radical alternative to the spirituality…
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Koyaanisqatsi: A compound Hopi word meaning “life out of balance”
Google Koyaanisqatsi, and the 1st thing it shows you is the critically acclaimed 1982 American non-narrative documentary film directed and produced by Godfrey Reggio, featuring music by Philip Glass and cinematography…
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Hydration In Heatwaves & Making Water Safe To Drink
If you have a fridge and a freezer, you are among the privileged few with access to cold drinks and ice. The rest of the world makes do with room-temperature…