Wasteland Archives
Apocalypse Meow! (Bugging Out With Cats)
Most people prefer not to think about the worst-case scenarios in their lives, but for us as collapse preppers that is exactly what we have to do. And that doesn’t just mean for ourselves but for our family members as well. All family members. So, when it comes to making sure our animal companions are safely evacuated in the inevitable bug out, there’s no time like the present to prepare! Here are my tips for bugging out with cats after a collapse event.
Mutual Assistance Groups (And Why You Need One)
In any true societal collapse scenario, the adage “there is strength in numbers” rings truer than ever. Survival becomes a far more attainable goal when you have allies to share the load. That’s why forming a Mutual Assistance Group is a prudent step for ensuring you have a dependable support system in place to see you through into the post-collapse world.
In this article, I take a look at what a Mutual Assistance Group is, and how such groups formed to prepare for collapse differ from the traditional MAGs. In preparation for surviving the collapse of civilization, it becomes necessary to broaden your horizons and make new like-minded friends who can contribute to your survival network. In the wild, the lone wolf starves, but the pack survives…
Predictions for a world on the brink
This is a reprint of an article post I made on Reddit shortly after the Russian invasion of Ukraine back in February of 2022. Originally I had written this as an analysis of the motivations behind the war, and the implications of it for world peace. Having researched the situation and all the surrounding factors, I came to a series of conclusions that, should one look back on them now, seem weirdly prophetic. Much of that original post would go on to be expanded on in the book that I wrote shortly thereafter. Here today, I am simply reprinting that original post, linked and unaltered, so that my readers who are not on Reddit can get an idea of where my thinking originated.
Given that my original post so accurately, and frighteningly, predicted the current actions by Iran and her proxies, and also aspects of the current U.S. political developments, I am becoming even more confident in the rest of the predictions I laid down in that fateful post. And that is not a good thing…
So, here it is, unedited other than a couple spelling corrections and the additions of subheadings to try and sort out some of the jumbled mess it was the day I wrote it…
9 Places to Avoid After SHTF
Knowing where to stay away from can be just as critical as knowing where to go after an SHTF event. When you and your family’s life is on the line, staying away from trouble spots that expose you to unnecessary risk has to be a priority. What we are facing is a total societal collapse. While the unprepared denizens of your city become threats to themselves due to ignorance, a collapse prepper always thinks through their actions beforehand and evaluates their environment knowing that one poor decision could be their last. Today, we are going to cover 9 places you must avoid when the shit starts to hit the fan…
Personal Wasteland Bugout Bag List
A quick and dirty guide to my own personal bugout bag items, waiting on the collapse of civilization to make it necessary.
Climate Migration: Fleeing Reality as the World Burns Around Us
While some nations commit to a lot of talking – but very little action – to reduce their carbon emissions, and others try – and fail – to adapt their most at-risk cities to hotter, drier conditions, there is another looming specter of disaster no one wants to talk about: the migration of billions of climate refugees.
For huge swathes of the most densely populated parts of the world, local conditions are already becoming too extreme for people to live in, and there is no way to adapt to those conditions. In fact, we don’t even know the full extent of those conditions, or if there will be any leveling off of the warming before humans go extinct… The long-term outlook is quite bleak, but even in the short term, people will have to move away from the worst areas in order to survive.
Given the extent of the acceleration we see with climate change, over the next few years we can expect things to get much worse than they are now. Hotter temperatures combined with more intense humidity are going to make many currently highly populated places lethal to live in. Seeking to escape the tropics, the coasts, and formerly arable lands, huge numbers of people will need to seek new homes.
EMP Defense: Faraday Bags for Emergency Preparedness
The looming specter of a nuclear weapons exchange between warring nations is an increasing danger that has been getting quite a few headlines recently, and that is a concern that must be addressed in several ways. Among all the other dangers of a nuclear detonation near your location, the electromagnetic pulse put out by such weapons can be devastating all on its own. Additionally, one of the greatest potential threats we face is the possibility of a weaponized EMP attack that doesn’t even involve destruction on the ground, but is instead detonated high in the upper atmosphere specifically to disable the national power grid and all electronic devices. And, as if that wasn’t enough to consider, there is also the ever-present possibility of a naturally occurring solar flare hitting our power system. Something like the Carrington Event happened before, and inevitably will happen again. Here is how to get ready for it.
A Political Wasteland
Predictions for a collapse-worthy 2024 election cycle that spells the beginning of the end…
The End Of The Petrodollar?
With BRICS member, Saudi Arabia, ending the 50-year Petrodollar agreement, this could be the beginning of the end for U.S. Dollar dominance. And that spells collapse and World War on the horizon.