How do you last the end of the planet you know? Safety guide

Krzysztof Lis and I are talking about what to do erstwhile there is no power, how to prepare for the request to evacuate, and why it is worth organising your household an experimentation “weekend end of the world”.

(Interview is simply a edited and completed version of the podcast Are you aware? p. How do you last the end of the planet you know? Who's the Preppers? What is prepping?).

Rafał Górski: “We get to a point where all thermostat, all electrical heater, all air conditioner, all power plant, all medical device, all hospital, all traffic light, all car will be connected to the Internet. Consider the possible consequences of a possible cyber attack on these devices," warned Brad Smith, president of Microsoft.

What happens in Poland erstwhile it reaches cyber attack and blackout? What are the consequences of a longer power outage, in a planet where everything is connected to the Internet?

Krzysztof Lis: erstwhile we could live without power and there was no problem. The electricity isn't just that we have light in the apartment, cold in the fridge and a origin of energy to boil dinner on the electrical stove. The current is besides the efficient operation of all systems, which we owe today's comfort and safety.

If the power goes out, there won't be any water either.

After a fewer days, cellular and terrestrial communications will halt functioning. It will so not be possible to pay with a payment card or make a transfer either via the net or in the bank branch. As long as stores are required to have emergency power for fiscal cash registers, many citizens will not be prepared for this and will not have cash due to the fact that they all pay by phone, credit card, blitz. This way of paying is convenient, but does not give us the chance to act erstwhile there is no electricity.

Due to the deficiency of electricity, all systems linking suppliers to customers of products will besides be stopped, so the goods will not scope the stores. It will be the end of life as we know it. present we have excellent medical care erstwhile we compare it to the 1 from a 100 years ago. We have communication with our loved ones, information about what is happening in the world, and so besides about the dangers facing us. erstwhile the power goes out, that's not gonna happen. Gradually, all systems will shut down. There won't even be any gas.

It is very easy to think of the danger, to limit ourselves to what we announcement erstwhile there is no power in our home, due to the fact that there is simply a insignificant failure. However, we besides request to look at indirect effects specified as the deficiency of water or the fact that people will starve after a fewer days and search food. There will besides be a immense problem with extinguishing fires, due to the fact that there will be no water in the hydrants. There will besides be a problem with ambulances, which will stand on the streets permanently trafficked by cars, as there will be no traffic lights.

However, the bandits who may not be willing to steal, break in, or rape people will function well, but they will have a small easier erstwhile the service has to respond to another types of reports.

James Wesley Rawles, author of the book “How to last the End of the World“ The U.S. population is so urbanized that in the event of a breakdown of the east or western energy network that lasts longer than a week, all cities will cease to be viable in a very short time. In specified a case, I foretell an almost impossible avalanche of events: the failure of the energy network, and then the failure of the water supply network, and then the disruption of food supply, followed by the collapse of order and public order, followed by fires and widespread looting, followed by immense “golden hordes” migrating from the largest cities.”

What does the author’s “golden hordes” mean?

Horde means people who, in order to meet their basic life needs, will decision to the countryside and will search food first. The water in turn will gotta rapidly learn to adapt to draw from the Vistula or the park pond.

Living in a large city, we are very dependent on supplies from outside the vast majority of products. There are virtually no sources of food or water. The exception is single wells, any of which are inactive in cities, and those which have people in single - household homes on the outskirts of cities. There are water shots under the Vistula River.

But even with the well, without power, we can't pump anything out of it.

In a situation of crisis, people who will not have food in cities, due to the fact that already everything will be stolen from the discount, which will fall prey to the hungry first, from cellars and restaurants, will go to smaller towns and villages, hoping that there are farmers there who grow the food themselves and inactive have it. However, the fact is that less and less inhabitants of the village actually work in agriculture, and if so, they have large farms where they produce, for example, wheat, which they immediately send to the recipient without keeping it in their warehouses.

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According to a study by the State Fire Department, "two years after the outbreak of the war in Ukraine in Poland, little than 4% of the population may be in shelters and hiding places". This was commented by the ultimate Chamber of Control, saying, "Civil defence does not be and citizens do not know where to look for a safe haven in case of threats."

Our country lacks shelters for civilians. What do you say?

People curious in the subject have known for a long time that these shelters are gone. They are not being built now, or you can effort to make a temporary hiding from the windstorm in the garage or in the basement under the block.

Today, any shelters are utilized as service facilities.

One section of the Warsaw metro was built in this angle so that it could service as a shelter, but this does not mean that it could be physically utilized for this purpose. This is because, in addition to the physical structure of the entrance to the subway, 1 must besides take care of, for example, supplies for people who will then be in these shelters, and that is missing. Let's skip the fact that the fresh metro line has beautiful glazed entrances that are complete nonsense from the position of possible bomb or rocket attacks on cities during the war. If bombs fall, these beautiful glass roofs over the entrances will hurt people.

Poles who are reasoning about securing their families for emergencies know that they should search shelter outside the city, due to the fact that there is nowhere to hide.

Of course, there are cellars, underground garages, but they are only suitable for sheltering themselves from roofs torn down by the storm or torn from the roots of trees. This is due to the fact that they were not designed to withstand e.g. six floors that are above the surface.

What are the 3 most crucial principles of the doctrine of endurance of the author of the book How to last the End of the World?

The basic rule that is most crucial in my life is to guarantee that your life needs are met no substance what situation we face. I mean, we should be ready for anything. It doesn't substance whether it's war or long-term blackout, due to the fact that our life needs will always be the same. You must take care to have water, food and a tourist cooker.

It is besides crucial to usage the equipment and supplies prepared on a regular basis.

First of all, due to the fact that then we'll cut their costs. For example, erstwhile it comes to food, we will eat it on an ongoing basis, not buy it on an adult basis, so we will save a lot. In turn, we can usage a tourist stove only if we usage it regularly. We know how much gas or petrol it consumes, so we know what kind of fuel we should accumulate.

It is besides crucial that we should not trust besides much on technological solutions, specified as mobile phones. In today’s world, it is 1 of the basic tools for communication and endurance of everyday different situations. That's who we frequently pay if we find a way in navigation to go home. These are large solutions, but erstwhile there is no power, they will halt working. In case of navigation it is worth downloading the map into the telephone memory. Later, if the cell telephone didn't work, we might charge the telephone in the car or with a powerbank and we can usage the information we have in it.

Do you think that in addition to the principles cited by the author of the book, there is something else worth adding that might be important?

It is worth putting more emphasis on the regular usage of things that we collect for hard times. due to the fact that we can only guarantee actual synergy erstwhile we are building our endurance strategy with the usage of things that benefit us all day.

An excellent example, which is hard to apply for individual who lives in a block, is simply a photovoltaic installation. Building it at home, we have our own electricity with which we can charge the car for free, run the air conditioning or heat the water. So all day we save money on this, and in an emergency, erstwhile no 1 has electricity around, and our inverter can work in island mode, which means without power from the outside, we will have electricity to meet basic life needs. This is simply a good insurance for power outage. This is much better than buying out insurance and paying contributions due to the fact that with specified insurance there is no benefit in everyday life. On the another hand, we can have a photovoltaic system, a garden or a bicycle.

The bike can be a large means of transport erstwhile something bad happens, but you can drive it all day for your wellness and for saving money.

Such synergies, in my opinion, must be sought.

“The perfect way to get a healthy sense of head is to experimentation with your household on a weekend. End of the world. On Friday afternoon, erstwhile you get home from work, turn off the main fuse, turn off the gas valve, turn on the water or turn on the pump. Spend the full weekend in primitive conditions. usage only the supplies stored in the pantry, prepare meals on the kitchen for wood or tourist kitchen, this is another book “How to last the End of the World”.

What is the “weekend end of the world” experiment?

The point of this experimentation is to effort to function like a crisis situation for a week. It's like there's no electricity and everything that's connected to it, which means gas and water. Remember, neither the fridge nor the freezer will cool down immediately after the blackout. This experimentation allows us to see how much time we have before the food in the freezer starts to thaw. usually it's a day or two, which gives us plenty of time to eat that food from the stash. In the end, this allows us to slow get utilized to fresh conditions, get a small utilized to discomfort.

Our life present is very easy due to the fact that we have electricity in our sockets, which is doing quite a few work for us.

It is 1 of the cooler ideas to test your own preparations for the utmost situation and look for weaknesses in them, but besides gives you the chance to gain cognition of the equipment we have. besides a small about ourselves, about the needs our household has and how we can satisfy them. During the experiment, we should not usage the elevator, take water from the well, and then save it, so that we can flush in the toilet. Only then do we begin to realize what awaits us, and we can prepare for it a small better.

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People seldom think about how household members will feel about the crisis. They think anyone can handle it. However, we frequently do not take into account the fact that, for example, children would be very complaining during specified a situation. It would be hard for them, that abruptly their life looks completely different and they can't even eat what they eat all day. The fact is, after a fewer days, a hungry kid will surely eat anything. But erstwhile we have so much to worry about, due to the fact that there's no electricity, there's no water, there's no food in the shops, in a fewer days, the level of safety on the streets will drop, we don't want another one. People besides have different food allergies, they request circumstantial medicines, which is worth remembering erstwhile organizing supplies.

A weekend experimentation can truly open your eyes. It's easier for those people who like to go camping, due to the fact that they naturally have this comfort a small little and you gotta satisfy certain life needs a small differently.

Who's the Preppers? What's preppering?

Prepper is simply a individual preparing for emergency situations. This concept entered the language through the National Geographic series "Doomsday Preppers". It comes from the verb “it’s prepare”, meaning “to prepare”. Preppers collect things for hard times. They effort to have more food than just 1 that makes life easier and any emergency origin of heat to prepare meals, warm homes or apartments. Preppers always refuel the car erstwhile there's half of it to go to the transportation area with their wife. They effort to look for solutions to meet their own needs, which are independent of electricity, net activities or mobile communications.

Many people with specified views decision out of cities to be safer to live closer to nature. In the country, it's easier to get its own origin of electricity or water than in the city. However, this is not a fresh concept, everyone in the country was a prepper, due to the fact that there was always a supply of food for the winter, so as not to starve. Our grandparents during the communist era were besides preppers, due to the fact that in turn there was nothing in the stores, and erstwhile there was something, it was for short, small and usually mediocre quality.

A lot of things were done on their own.

Clothes were made from materials that could be bought erstwhile there were no trousers, and they made preparations whenever they could buy natural materials or grow themselves.

Our society has forgotten this due to prosperity, and it would be good to remember this slowly, due to the fact that good times are slow ending and not only due to the threat of war, but there are many factors that can drastically change our lives. War, climate change, global failure to power mobile or net communications, or 1 of the largest online ecosystems of the kind Facebook or Google can truly turn the lives of many people upside down. Then it will be large to have a backup of data not only in the cloud, but besides on your home computer or on your mobile disk.

What is an evacuation backpack and what should it contain?

One aspect of preparing for an emergency is that we may be forced to evacuate from home. To be safe, you gotta do it quickly. That's what the evacuation backpack is expected to do. It's got all the stuff we request to get out of the home so we can live a fewer days. It is said that the content should last us for 72 hours, due to the fact that after 3 days the state services should scope all those in need.

If individual plans to evacuate to a certain location from above, e.g. they have quite a few tens of kilometres outside the city, where they feel safe from threats, then they can usage specified an object as their goal of evacuation. In specified a situation, the evacuation kit may not be equipped for 3 days, but the equipment that allows us to safely scope the target.

Everyone should adjust it to their needs and have it ready in a life-threatening situation.

We don't pack them only erstwhile the threat appears and so we don't stand barefoot in socks on the snowy lawn erstwhile our home or block is put out by the fire department.

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Ronald Wright, author of the book "A Brief past of Progress", in an interview with the civilian Affairs Weekly saysthat in the event of the collapse of industrial civilization, the number of people will decrease from 8 billion to billion. simply put, billions will die. Does surviving the end of the planet as we know it mean we're going to eat human corpses?

Everything will depend on the pace of these changes. any people will surely die from wars over water, food. Today, in any communities, people kill each another through neighbouring conflicts. However, any people are not born at all.

When there is hunger, people who plan to have a household will not deliberately bring their children into the world.

With the slow fall of civilization as we know it, I don't think there would be a problem of cannibalism. However, depopulation can besides be expected due to climate change. It is said that by the end of the century in the year 2100 there will be either 3 billion people or half a billion people. Then, however, we will conflict with hunger, food shortages, wars and reduced birth rates. On the another hand, if the situation were to make very quickly, rapidly, it might be essential to eat the corpse, as it was during the holodomore in Ukraine [the holodomore was artificially caused by the russian authorities with a large hunger from 1932 to 1933 in Ukraine, which led to the death of millions of people – ed.].

What crucial question has no 1 asked you, and what answer is there?

I think it should address intellectual aspects of preparing for emergencies.

This means that people in crisis situations operate very differently.

There are various known mechanisms of reaction, e.g. fighting or flight, which means that in consequence to threats we have mobilization and start to act, fight or run distant from threats. There is besides a known reaction in which people frost and halt functioning due to strong emotions. He's not dying, but he's no longer in any kind of cause. It would be truly good if we put more effort into caring for people's intellectual welfare and in trying to be immune to crisis situations. Currently, youths are brought up under the shelter, everything is easy for them, which leads to them not being able to respond decently erstwhile they are abruptly threatened with life and severe stress. Everyone should have at least a basic opposition to inconveniences in order to be able to respond decently and not become hysterical.

What 3 books or films would you urge to make the themes that you have told us today?

One of the excellent books on the subject is “Nuclear War endurance Skills” by Cresson Kearny. This is an American textbook on how to last a atomic war. It describes a number of ad hoc shelters that will defend themselves from radiation and shrapnel or from flying tree branches.

It doesn't should be complicated to build an improvised shelter somewhere on the land.

Just safe the right amount of wood for this purpose, for which even the doors removed from the frame are suitable. The method of construction is described nicely in this book. In addition, it contains quite a few another aspects, specified as what kind of food it is worth taking care of, how to organize light in an improvised shelter. The book is available for free download and can be read, but there is no Polish language version.

The second worth reading is simply a guide developed by the Association for the improvement and past of civilian Defence under the title "How to strengthen the basement". It is besides available for free download. In turn, it talks about how to strengthen the ceiling in the basement, so that it does not collapse if something happens. This is simply a solution for people who live in blocks. There is besides a very interesting book Selco Begovic entitled ‘Survival in the cityIt’s okay. ” She talks in item about the war in Yugoslavia and the lessons from it.

It shows how crucial the local community is to be built.

Some Preppers believe that they will function like lone wolves, if they flee into the forest, they will pitch their shelter or dig a ground, they will feed on what they find in the forest or what they hunt and they will not worry about anything. Meanwhile, it turns out that specified a man turns out to be naked, like a king, a broken leg or a sprain of the leg or a flu or a simple cold. A household or a fewer families working closely together gives a much better chance of survival, due to the fact that 1 day you gotta sleep and individual has to watch our backs. The order of books is random.

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