Prepping: A Guide to Being Ready for When SHTF

By Gavin Carney

Your Guide to Being Ready for When SHTF

There's a reason the Boy Scouts take 'be prepared' as their motto—you never know what's just around the corner, and if you're not ready for it, you're as good as dead. If you're asking yourself why it's necessary to be ready for the worst-case scenario, open this book now.

This book contains some of the basics of survival, aimed at getting by in the worst case scenario—ecological disaster, political or social upheaval, extinction-level event.
The most critical thing with survival is awareness and understanding. This book strives to give you a strong dose of both.

This book is not the final word on anything discussed here. All it can do is to provide you with a foundation of knowledge to get you started. No book can guarantee that you will make it, or that you will even survive. What this book does provide are commonsense methods of solving ordinary, everyday problems for the person. This book establishes an overview of what you will need to research in order to become more proficient. It provides helpful hints on how to do critical things for your survival.

Within this book's pages, you'll find the answers to these questions and more. Just some of the questions and topics covered include

- Be Prepared

- Attitude

- Survival

- Shelter

- Getting Food

- Preparing, Cooking and Storing

- Building

- Other Skills to Develop

- Working with Animals

- Making Your Own Everyday Products

- Re-Use and Economizing

- And more!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Gavin Carney
• Release date: Jul 7, 2019
• ISBN: 9781393772774

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Introduction

I want to thank you and commend you for downloading the book, Prepping: Be Ready for When SHTF

This book contains some of the basics of survival, aimed at getting by in the worst case scenario—ecological disaster, political or social upheaval, extinction-level event.

The most critical thing with survival is awareness and understanding. This book strives to give you a strong dose of both.

This book is not the final word on anything discussed here. All it can do is to provide you with a foundation of knowledge to get you started. No book can guarantee that you will make it, or that you will even survive. What this book does provide are commonsense methods of solving ordinary, everyday problems for the person. This book establishes an overview of what you will need to research in order to become more proficient. It provides helpful hints on how to do critical things for your survival.

Thanks again for downloading this book, I hope you enjoy it!

Chapter 1 – Be Prepared

There’s a reason the Boy Scouts take ‘be prepared’ as their motto—you never know what’s just around the corner, and if you’re not ready for it, you’re as good as dead. If you’re asking yourself why it’s necessary to be ready for the worst-case scenario, keep reading. This chapter will take a look at some of the things you need to worry about, things that could easily lead to societal collapse in your lifetime. The post-apocalyptic movies and TV shows that are in fashion right now might seem far-fetched, but while the chance of a plague of zombies is fairly low, there are a lot of things that can go wrong. Our world is always on the brink of destruction, from environmental disaster or political upheaval, and if you’re not one of the prepared ones, you won’t survive it.

Climate Change Considerations

Contrary to popular myth, we currently live in an Ice Age interglacial commonly known as the Holocene. According to one climate scientist, the Holocene is between 500 and 6,000 years overdue to end (W.S. Broecker, 1998). When an interglacial period ends, and those two polar ice caps persist, a glacial period follows. The two tiny ice caps become huge.

Whatever madness made the United Nations and world governments adopt a fear of warming and a fetish for global cooling, their policies are diametrically opposed to nature and human prosperity. What does this mean for us? It means that we could see a return to glacial conditions of the current Ice Age far sooner than some might have imagined. Scientists don’t know enough, yet, so no one knows for certain when the next glacial period will begin. But when it does, winters will be colder and, for some regions, may become permanent. This will likely include 99% of Canada and up to 30% of the United States. It could also include similar percentages of Northern Europe. Those regions will see permanent snow cover become the norm. People in those northern regions will likely have to move, if not immediately, then eventually.

Such severe global cooling would result in far less rain (and snow), because cooler oceans don’t evaporate as much water vapor. Deserts may be able to keep more moisture, because of the cooler weather, but they will be far less likely to get any new moisture. And deserts will grow in size because of the relative lack of rain. The objective would be to find areas which receive the most rain.

Glacial periods will likely see far more storms (tornadoes and hurricanes), because polar cold will have been pushed closer