Re:Doomsday planning for less crazy folk
by forrestthewoods on Friday January 15, 2016 @03:08AM
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How do I prevent the Cascadia earthquake?
Vote for earthquake preparedness programs, neighborhood initiatives, plan for an actual realistic disaster like that and not some absurd "everyone for themselves" survival scenario?
You achieve a lot more campaigning for community preparedness then stockpiling beans. Make more friends too.
Re:Doomsday planning for less crazy folk
by lifeisstillgood on Friday January 15, 2016 @07:40AM
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Absolutely the most insightful comment this side of Texas.
And applicable to disaster preparedness and terrorist actions and banking failures
Now, humans are social animals - we naturally form groups. And the group which will have the most necessity is anyone without sufficient immediate resources. And who has the most resources? Why, the guy with 6 months of food rations. 6 months of food rations will feed him for 6 months, or my group of 30 for 6 days - which gives us say, 10 days to find more.
The real question in that scenario then, is how stupid is the guy with 6 months of supplies planning to be about distribution?
A much better risk-mitigation plan is this: either die preventing the catastrophe, or prevent it.