Before the Collapse by Ugo Bardi

Author:Ugo Bardi
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9783030290382
Publisher: Springer International Publishing

Could this kind of resilience be planned for even before a disaster will strike? Some people appear to be engaged in this kind of planning. In the US, there is the movement of the “preppers,” or “survivalists,” people preparing for whatever major disaster may strike them, including the end of the world as we know it (TEOTWAWKI). In many cases, preppers emphasize individual or single-family preparation rather than community resilience, they may stockpile food, supplies, and weapons in their cellars in the expectation for the worse to come. A different approach may be common in Europe with the “Transition Towns” movement [43] which emphasizes collective action to preserve the local social network. These are experiments in building community-level resilience by means of collaboration, local resources, local agriculture, and sometimes using local currencies. It does not seem that survivalists or transition towns people have been put to test yet by a true emergency situation, so we do not know how well these ideas will withstand contact with reality. In principle, both ideas may be good in some circumstances but, as usual, we move into the future without being sure that we are taking the right direction.

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