Category: survival
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The Honest Truth? Adaptation Will Always Be Temporary.
What we adapt to this year will be different next year. The planet is warming. If it makes you anxious, that is normal. 2026 will be our children’s best year;…
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Climateflation: How Climate Change Is Now The Primary Influence on Food Prices
“If you ask an economist why everything is so expensive these days, you will likely get an answer explaining how oil — the lifeblood of the global economy — is…
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A Tale of 2 Fires & An Actual Risk Assessment During A Period of High National Fire Risk & Severe Drought.
I am on the management team of a small annual camp for music and arts. We hold an annual event in August. The landowner does not stipulate whether we can…
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Homeless Shelter: Nylon Tent or Insulated Bender with a Canvas Tarp and Wood Burner or a Hand-Built Thatch Structure?
I spent several years living in Benders: bent pole structures covered with a tarp on the 1990s road protests. We built them on platforms in the trees and on the…
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Hackers Thought to be Associated with the Iranian Regime Shut Down Small UK Power Plant
The government said that at no point was there a risk to the UK’s energy system, but the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ) has contacted power companies…
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Homelessness and Off-Grid Survival Are Not the Same, and Here’s Why.
Off-grid survival requires a cooperative community, which you do not find with homelessness, apart from in small pockets, and among the homeless, there is little loyalty. It’s a competition for…
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Field Medicine: Wound Management and Beneficial Plants and Their Extended Uses For Community Wellbeing.
This post is a response to this video. This video is excellent and addresses some of the nonsense that is taught by survival instructors. Moss in general is not medicinal.…
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The Hottest Summer in Britain So Far: Adaptation Requires So Much More & Less Than People Realise.
May, the Earliest Summer Heatwave in my Lifetime of 60 Years. Beyond 1.5°C, human survival is dependent on skills which no Neoshaman can teach you. “The reason we are in…
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The Oil Industry Conspired to Keep Climate Science Off All Agendas
What’s a conspiracy theory you actually find believable? The oil industry conspired to keep climate science Off All Agendas and they continue to do so while planning for climate change.…
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Food Crisis – Doomers didn’t want to be right
Originally published June 2024 “The 1795 food riots are known as the revolt of the housewives, a term coined by John Lawrence Hammond and Barbara Hammond for a series of…
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Heat-related deaths and Brushfires are the “New Normal”: UK Climate of the 20th Century is now gone
The UK Climate has changed abruptly and irreversibly. The heatwave of 1976 is repeatedly cited as a benchmark for UK heatwaves; it’s not. Last year, 2025, is the new benchmark…
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“I Agree With Solarpunk”- I Don’t and Here’s Why
Solarpunk is utopian and relies on industrial capitalism Punk has never been well known for great analysis of Industrial Society. Punk is rebellion repackaged, absorbed into capitalism through music and…
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3000 heat-related deaths in May and June and over 20,000 Across Europe as climate change shows us how deadly it’s going to get.
The Fast-moving wildfire on RSPB Site Dunwich Heath has forced holidaymakers and locals to evacuate. Some were given less than a minute to grab what they could and leave. Many…
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Emergency Planning For an Evacuation: What’s in Your Ready-to-Go Bag? (RTG)
This is a family evacuation bag. Every member of the family should have one. This is NOT a Bug Out Bag (BOB) or a Get Home Bag (GHB). This is…
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Climate Change Is Banned On Many Bushcraft & Prepper Forums
Originally Published in November 2023 Judging from Recent Outbursts it Would Appear We Can Extend That To Some NeoShamans too. A Culture of Abuse, Bullying and Ridicule is What These…
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Dry Sanitation: What Happens When The Sewage & Waste Infrastructure Fails?
The Post-AMOC Collapse Toilet: It will be deep into the unsurvivable collapse of this civilisation when the national wastewater and sewage infrastructure collapses. But localised flooding/ power outages could cause…
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UK Preppers Aren’t Calculating the Climate Change Heatwave Risk Rating, and It’s Getting Deadlier
In June 2026 “Across Europe, he estimated there were 20,390 deaths in total. France was the worst (5,210 deaths), followed by Germany (4,543), Spain (3,163), and Italy (2,709). “It emphasises…
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Zombie Fires: Soil/ Root fires which burn through the winter, moving underground at a pace and invisible
If there are any human stories in the future, they will be about what we did today to improve our chances of survival—not what we said. I first saw soil…
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There Will Never Again Be a Year Cooler Than This One
Across France and Spain, nearly 500,000 internal climate refugees are fleeing wildfires. These unprecedented human migrations are inherently destabilising and require fast-acting localised management and the encouragement of state-supported mutual…