Category: survival
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National Emergency Briefing: Agrees with Solidarity Prepping
Everything they talk about is on this Blog, plus more. National Emergency Briefing Live: Preparedness matters, and so does storing extra food and other supplies. When we talk about the…
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Now India: Climate Change is Driving Global Water Bankruptcy, Falling Crop Yields, Rising Food Prices, Climateflation, Shrinkflation & Rioting.
India like most of the rest of the world is water bankrupt. https://www.orfonline.org/expert-speak/from-water-stress-to-water-bankruptcy-urban-india-s-new-hydrological-reality Rising Food Prices & A Water Crisis with no End in Sight Indias Youth Protests are Driven by…
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We Have Lost The Goldilocks Climate Niche For Agriculture. 1.5°C was the Tipping Point
Still being written.. We Have Lost the Goldilocks Climate Niche for Agriculture & the Attack on Iran has Exacerbated Pharmaceutical & Medical Equipment Supply Chain Vulnerabilities We are living in…
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3 Hurricanes with Biblical Names: Rachel, Simon and Isaias
Biblical names for 3 hurricanes bring potentially catastrophic Rain across the US “Three current (Rachel) or forecast (Isaias and Simon) hurricanes will bring widespread rainfall to the U.S. over the…
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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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Survival skills: Cordage from Lime Bark
Lime or linden bast (inner bark) Cordage. To extract the fiber, it needs to be retted in water, ideally river or pond water. I used some river water and rainwater.…
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Apocalypse, Channel 4: “Impenetrable individualism that means no one is willing to concede to an expert.” This is what will kill most people during collapse
Farmer left in an abandoned, freezing town without food and water for a TV show Here is the Preview: The Show: Apocalypse, Channel 4 ‘I wanted to thrive.’ However, the…
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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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Resilience & Mutual Aid Require: Planning, Calories, Water & Cooperation
Preppers used to be ridiculed – but we’re all stockpiling now– Guardian Some Climate “Thought Leaders” clearly have nothing to teach us about collapse and climate-driven agricultural collapse beyond 1.5C.…
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Calories, Community Preparedness, Tolerance, and Survivable Climate Are What Will Decide
May heatwaves, deaths, ruined harvests: study of Europe’s summer paints grim picture for the future [1] The Guardian Community Preparedness Starts with Household Food & Water Sovereignty & Security Solidarity…
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The Crows Know More About You, Your Daily Habits & Whether You Notice Them Than You Could Ever Imagine
Crows are a hyper-intelligent species with a complex language and an intergenerational storytelling culture that passes information from one generation to the next; it’s all about survival and who they…
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While Neo-Shamans Pilfer the Ceremonies of Indigenous People, I Ask: What Could We Learn From Indigenous People without being Neocolonial?
The Indigenous people of North America, Canada, Australia, Amazonia, and the Arctic have requested that New Agers and Shamanic Practitioners cease appropriating their ceremonies, rituals, and symbolic paraphernalia. There is…
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Solidarity Prepping Is Positopian Preparedness
So what is Solidarity Prepping? From the Collapse Club Library: https://publish.obsidian.md/collapseclub/Prepping/Solidarity+Prepping+-+An+Introduction#Examples “Being prepared is an antidote to fear. If we are prepared, we have the “ability to act” during a…
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The Realities and Rewards of Skip Diving Before It Was A Literary Genre in Cli-Fi
In mid-April 1996, I was finishing a degree in Human Geography at Middlesex University. I was asked by a friend to attend an “action” planning meeting for TLIO (The Land…
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Solidarity Prepping: We Are Preparing For A Civilisation Terminal Collapse
Core Skills: Survivalism is NOT hunting and gathering; survivalism is adaptation to climate change. Water Collection, storage & purification for human consumption. This subject is covered in my post on…
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A Deep Connection To Nature Requires Engagement With The Land Through Husbandry & Survival Skills
First Published November 2026, Updated 30/08/2026 The English landscape is ancient, and I think many people who talk about connection to the land deeply misunderstand what connection to land and…
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Drought & Over-Extraction of Water, Coupled with Accelerating Global Climate Heating, Were Driving The Riots in Iran
I first published the main body of this article on my Blogger site, Collapse Adaptation, on January 15, 2026. It is now clear that Trump attacked Iran at the behest…
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8 Skills Mainstream Preppers Don’t Do Because They Fear Losing Their Followers and Supporters.
1st published 22 December 2025, edited 17 January 2026 and re-edited August 2026. 1. Stop attributing climate destabilisation to ridiculous conspiracy theories. 2. De-escalation of confrontation. When Preppers declare they…