There are many unselfish individuals in this world who work to fix things, but as a group, and a group of countries, we are so selfish that the problem of global warming will never be stopped.
Nor the many other gigantic crises that face the earth such as plastic pollution.
As there is no way the people of earth will unify to fix this, better start getting ready sometime in the next 20 years for a gigantic shift in where people see civilization is headed.
There’s also no way that any amount of your preparations will materially improve your chances. If you stockpile, and civilization collapses, you will be raided for your stockpiles by stronger, better armed people. There will always be stronger, better armed people. If you prepare to live off land, how is that going to work when the land is dead?
There’s no escape for you or your family, except averting disaster in the first place, or death. Unless your prepping amounts to a suicide pact, then it’s just a fantasy to keep you from being too afraid. As comforting fantasies go, prepping seems like a particularly expensive and time-consuming one. Unless you’re desperate for the illusion of control, your time and money is better spent elsewhere.
You should prepare for disasters as they really happen. Could you survive OK in Portoriko (or your local type of similar disaster)? Would you have way to generate power at least to have light and radio? Do you have friends in other countries/places that would help you relocate? Do you have water and food for few weeks to survive initial blast? What about medicine you need? Do you have cash to buy basics until electricity is setup again?
But you are right that if you prepare too well. So well that it's visible, it is likely that it will be taken from you. Or you can end up as that guy who prepared for zombie apocalypse and lost it all (100k USD invested) in hurricane.
It will never (with exception of all out nuclear war) be total world annihilation. Yet most people seems totally unprepared for stuff that just keeps happening. And it will likely be getting more frequent with climate change.
Why wouldn’t people band together to rebuild, share resources and fight off robbers? Have a little faith in people! That said, maybe the typical “prepper” dream is to be isolated in an apocalyptic scenario, but more likely neighbors need to get through a food or electric shortage.
Find me the casual opportunist in the apocalypse; it would all be starving lions, and a lot of lions. If you want a preview, study famous famines and sieges, like the siege of Stalingrad, and the Holodomor. I’ll say it again, prepping for something other than limited disaster (i.e. a hurricane or earthquake) is only realistically achieved by trying to avert doom, or buy a gun and as many bullets as your family has members.
> it would all be starving lions, and a lot of lions
90% of us would be better classed as the gazelle in this analogy. Even the lions would be fighting each other for dominance.
> If you want a preview, study famous famines and sieges, like the siege of Stalingrad, and the Holodomor
Most hardcore preppers either live outside a city or plan to escape the city pretty quickly, so I don't know what Stalingrad is supposed to prove. Were their people with remote bunkers and years of food supplies when holodomor happened?
Not with that attitude, we won’t. The ozone layer disaster never materialized because we fixed it. Giving in to fatalism on this is deeply disappointing.
It’s also worth noting that a lot of indicators are moving in the right direction for stopping global warming. It won’t stop before it’s become a significant problem. But we should be able to stop it before it becomes apocalyptic.
could you give some of those indicators, because I fail to find them (number of cars increases, energy consumption increases, CO2 in atmosphere increases, ocean "acidification" increases,...). I'd be so happy to have some good news !
Nor the many other gigantic crises that face the earth such as plastic pollution.
As there is no way the people of earth will unify to fix this, better start getting ready sometime in the next 20 years for a gigantic shift in where people see civilization is headed.