Surviving Disaster
| August 18, 2011 | Posted by The Futtock under Survival |
There can only be a disaster where people have not made preparations. In other words, a disaster in making is a lack of preparation.
I am 95% sure that everything is going to work out just fine. I think the future is going to have its ups and downs but in general mankind will make it to some distant future.
95% – What about the other 5%? Should I ignore this?
The answer is, I could, but then again I can’t. You see, I have kids. In fact there are a lot of kids out there, and it is my job as well as any adult’s to see to it that they have a future. If we want to mess up our own lives and world, that is fine, but we have to think about the kids who do not have a say in the matter. They will inherit this world, and the world and they need to be looked after, so suddenly that 5% is important and I can no longer ignore it.
So what am I going to do about it?
The first thing to do is avert disaster and as mentioned before, that is done by being prepared. I will presume and hope for the best, happy in the knowledge that I have prepared for the worst.
The second thing to do is tackle the problems of the world at their source. These problems are many and varied and include war, epidemics, draught, economic meltdown, terrorism, social meltdown, global warming, environmental meltdown and more. I will start with the first point though.
I am in no way an outdoors kind of man. I like the outdoors, but I don’t particularly enjoy camping, let alone surviving off the woods or any such thing. I think I look stupid in camouflage, and I don’t want to learn how to use a gun. In other words, I am not the outdoors survival type who gets a kick from living off the land and perhaps even distrusts government. Don’t get me wrong, there is nothing bad with that kind of guy, it is just not me. The point I am making here is that that guy’s skills and habits are what I need to look into even though it is not to my taste and it is what I will probably be writing about. I am an average guy who likes TV and computers and cars and reading and a bit of DIY. I am probably a lot like you.
5% is not much but it is enough. This is for the kids.
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