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- Book review of Lights Out. A Cyberattack. A Nation Unprepared. Surviving the Aftermath
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Tag Archives: survival
Want to survive Peak Everything? Become a Mormon
Source: Salt Lake Tribune. For Latter-day Saint families, preparing for emergencies is the norm Preface. Ted Koppel’s book “Lights Out” highlights the many risks to the grid from cyber and physical attacks, electromagnetic pulses from weapons or solar flares, large … Continue reading
Book list: What to do about peak everything and limits to growth
If you search on prepping you’ll get 62 million results, but that hasn’t been my focus. I’m madly in love with my techno-optimist husband, we’re both senior citizens, and so we’re not going anywhere or preparing. Where best to be … Continue reading
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Book review: the stranger in the woods. The extraordinary story of the last true hermit
Preface. On March 16, 2020 it was announced that the residents of most San Francisco Bay Area counties were expected to shelter in place for a few weeks to stop the Covid-19 pandemic. Three weeks? You can do it, Christopher … Continue reading
Part 3 Raven Rock. The government’s plans for after a nuclear holocaust
This is the third part of my book review of: Graff, G.M. 2018. Raven Rock. The Story of the U.S. Governments Secret Plan to Save Itself–While the Rest of Us Die. Simon and Schuster. This book stresses that a full … Continue reading
Book review of “In order to live: A North Korean girl’s journey to freedom” by Yeonmi Park
Related Posts North Korea collapse posts How different nations have coped with oil shortages Dmitry Orlov: How Russians survived the collapse of the Soviet Union A book review of “Russia’s Food Policies and Globalization” Lessons Learned from How Cuba Survived … Continue reading
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How to survive a nuclear winter
[ Clearly you’d want to move to Australia or New Zealand or stockpile 5 years of food. Related posts: Nuclear winter: World-wide ozone loss from small nuclear war = 1 billion + deaths The EMP Commission estimates a nationwide blackout … Continue reading
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Dmitry Orlov: How Russians survived the collapse of the Soviet Union
[ A great post by Dmitry Orlov about what collapse may be like, the best strategies to survive, and why the Russian way of life and culture prepared them far better for hard times than will be the case in … Continue reading
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