Introduction

 

How will the world end? A question that has been asked since humans could talk. One day it will happen, probably sooner rather than later. The human race may consume itself with nuclear war, climate change may cause the sea levels to rise and 95% of the earth’s surface to become inhabitable, a massive solar storm could wipe out our electronics systems and cause chaos, an asteroid might strike, a new strain of bird flu could wipe us out, a sudden ice age could occur, aliens might invade in search of resources or the second coming itself may finally occur.

Quite frankly, there are hundreds of doomsday scenarios out there. Some are plausible, some less so. Are a giant race of lizard people going to invade from Pluto? Probably not. Is there a possibility of a solar flare wiping out all communications and electronics sending modern society into chaos?  Possibly. Are we due a worldwide pandemic of a mutated form of flu that will wipe out 80% of the world’s population? Almost certainly.

If a doomsday event occurs, then many people will still survive it. There will be always people who are immune to the mutated flu virus for example. However, under any doomsday scenario a breakdown of modern society is quite likely. If this occurs, how geared up you to live without gas, electricity and petrol? What if you can no longer walk down to the supermarket and buy your food? Money would be obsolete; worthless. Law and order will be no more. In these circumstances most of the population would not cope. Firstly, much of the remaining population would actually kill each other as they compete for resources. Others simply wouldn’t have the skills to survive. However some people will be perfectly equipped for this new world, these people are the “preppers.”  Preppers are those that have actually studied the possibility of the collapse of society and have prepared to beat it.

In this short book preppers have shared some of their own tips to surviving a doomsday event and the breakdown of society that will accompany it.