Chapter 2: Why Should You Be Prepared For Doomsday?

 

Doomsday is more than just crackpot theory.  Bulletin of Atomic Scientists (BAS) member and world recognized expert in cosmological and mathematical science, Stephen Hawking, offered the following quote:

 

“As scientists, we understand the dangers of nuclear weapons and their devastating effects, and we are learning how human activities and technologies are affecting climate systems in ways that may forever change life on Earth.  As citizens of the world, we have a duty to alert the public to the unnecessary risks that we live with every day, and to the perils we foresee if governments and societies do not take action now to render nuclear weapons obsolete and to prevent further climate change.” 

Mark Strauss, notable editor of the BAS publication, was quoted as saying that, “although the threat (of ecological disaster) is not as dire as that of nuclear weapons right now, in the long term we are looking at a serious threat.”

He further explained that just 50 of today’s current nuclear weapons could kill 200 million people.

(Source: http://www.nbcnews.com/id/16670686/#.UR7f3x2siSo )

 

It is not unbelievable that an actual Doomsday event could be just around the corner.  Are you and your family prepared to survive such a disaster?

 

While many people have moved away from the early evangelical roots of the word, the state of the world still prompts large numbers of people to prepare for eventual disasters.  Whether Doomsday comes in its biblical form as an act of God or if it brought about by man-made or natural disaster, the consequences for the unprepared could be devastating. 

 

Whole communities could disappear overnight.  Law and order could be dealt a crushing blow that would render law enforcement and emergency response agencies unable to protect and serve the citizens.  If any form of law or government remained, it would likely be the strict stranglehold of martial law which has a proven tendency to turn ugly when such immense power and control is wielded by a small group of people.  As we have seen in many areas of the world, once beautiful neighborhoods can be transformed into hostile war zones overnight as people fight back against the tyranny of martial law enforcers or when they are forced to protect their lives and belongings from murderers, thieves and other predators in the absence of law.

 

In all of the chaos of a disaster, families could easily become separated or trapped within a hostile area.  As history has shown us, when emergency situations strike, it is a poor time to start planning strategy.  For your family to actually survive and get through a Doomsday event together, you need to plan for all contingencies before they happen.  Without proper planning of safe meeting places and escape routes, it could take months or years to reconnect with loved ones, assuming the reunion ever happened at all.

 

Local grocery stores usually stock enough food for a three day supply during regular consumer demand.  Emergency products, such as candles, camp stove fuel and first aid supplies, may be kept in even smaller numbers by your local retailers.  By doing this, they ensure that the product on the shelf is rotated and within its recommended use by dates.  In an emergency situation, such as an impending natural disaster, the human response to suddenly start hoarding supplies becomes very prominent.  When this happens, the store's three day supply of food can be exhausted within a few hours as panicked customers rush to buy supplies.  In situations where lost power or damage to the area has resulted in the destruction of a portion of food stocks or emergency supplies, the remaining items move off the shelves all the more quickly.  Without proper preparation prior to a Doomsday event, you and your family could be without food or other supplies for a very long period of time.

 

With such dire scenarios being legitimate possibilities, it is prudent to make preparations now which would help avert disaster later.  While it is easy to say there will always be time to prepare tomorrow, history has shown us that, when disaster strikes, tomorrow is too late.  Doomsday events can happen on both a local and a global scale.  To ensure your families survival during a Doomsday event, you must prepare for these emergencies now.