If you can reconcile those I'll be impressed.
Tough to understand what point your trying to put across, are you saying it's better long term to live hand to mouth?
The biggest risk currently is to our health.
Regular exercise, living and eating healthy go a long way to help keep our health, plus if we do get ill it up's our chances of surviving and a quicker recovery.
Second biggest concern is money.
Not being able to provide for our families and pay the bills.
If you doubt that take a look at the various countries around Europe that are struggling, the suicide rates have shot up.
Live a healthy lifestyle, exercise regularly, live within your means and have a plan that will afford you some financial security and you've made massive steps towards providing security for you and your family.
Had one, it broke my bank account, got me into debt and I couldn't put food on the table. Halth insurance, I though NI contributions sorted that? Savings, been there, done that, yet all they were ever used for was to cover redundancies and make up for the fact that I couldn't earn enough to make ends meet. So in effect, I was working for naff all. I am not on benefits BTW, in case that's what you are thinking. I don't need to be. For the first time in my life, I feel like I am achieving something for myself and my family.
Edit, As for rehousing while ours is repaired, I have a second residential property on my land which is just as equiped as my own house is. I also have a fairly large shed or three, which could easily house a family. I have stayed at smaller and less equiped bothy's than even my hen shed is, yet came to no harm. If what you are after is comfort, then that is a completely different ball game to shear survival. In survival situations, one which you do what you have to do regardless of comfort, you just do it. You can easily live without running water, yet people are so accustomed to having it that they think it is a necessity. Same goes for electric, gas, petrol for transport and cutting lawns. We survived a millenia before any of these things became common place or even thought about. We must have, otherwise we wouldn't have been here today.
So you cannot afford to work then
If your working for naff all then it might be prudent to get a better job
Same way anybody else would, I would catch the bus, get a taxi or lift from a friend, I even may phone for an ambulance. But in the event that money is null and void, so would the NHS, so I would nip to my doctor-neighbur.
You specifically mentioned the collapse of society, do you honestly think buses will be running then
You look forward to millions suffering and dyeing, but still expect the NHS, buses and ambulances to run around if you need them.
This a ridiculous proposition.
If millions have died then who will run the hospitals, produce the goods you consume, ship them to you, work the coal mines, maintain and drive the trains to the power stations, maintain and work these powre stations that then supply hospitals with power.
Who will manufacture the medication and hospital supplies.
I know. So I intend to grow more than I need so as to save some for such times as my crops fail. I also have a skill set which isn't all that common, so have a means to barter for food.
What about in winter?
What about if a lot of crops get ruined or stolen?
What if there is another 53 with your crops destroyed?
History has shown on thousands if not millions of occasions that societies that live in small geographical locations don't last long, as droughts, floods, harsh winters, disease etc etc etc all bring them down.
Over the years, I saved hard. I got into debt when things went sour. I lost jobs. I went self employed, but couldn't get enough work to sustain my family. But now, although money is tight, I am actually far better off. Money comes and goes, yet my family always need warmth and food. When working, I couldn't earn enough to feed them or keep the house warm, and didn't have the time to grow things or cut peat. Now I do.
Of course it's better, your wife is off working for a living while your sat watching potatoes grow, who wouldn't love a life like that.
If you couldn't earn enough to feed your family then you should, move or retrain in another career.
Genious. Why didn't that occur to me? WAIT A MINUTE, WITHOUT A SOURCE OF IGNITION, HOW DOES A SOLID STONE BUILDING CATCH FIRE? If the contents inside it are stored properly, they will also struggle to self ignite. As for the house, the kitchen is fireproof. I could make a fire in the middle of the floor, and it would not spread, as I don't have anything combustable there. I didn't say it won't catch fire because it rains a lot, I said I had nothing to catch fire or even start one with. And yes, peoples houses do catch fire - even up here. But how many of them were either because of stupidity for leaving a fire to get out of control or deliberate acts of arson?
My living room has no carpet, but does have a sofa. The location of my fireplace and the fact that my stove has a door on it means that it is highly unlikely to spit and start a fire, and besides from that, the fire is never left unattended (nor is the cooker) as we have a 5 year old in the house. Fires can't start without a source of ignition, cant burn without adequate fuel, and rarely spread when there is somebody present with a fire blanket at the ready.
Rubbish
Faulty wiring, rats eating perfectly good wiring, batteries failing, cigarettes burning, matches being trod on, laptop batteries failing, even lightening strikes all cause millions of fires each and every year.
I lost a mate only a few years ago when a plug in air freshener caught alight, he never knew anything.
When i was your age i probably had a short sighted view of the world as well, as it is though your scenarios are not realistic.
We're not talking end of the world scenarios here.
If your Mrs took ill and was unable to work, or even if she ran off with another bloke you'd be up the swanny without a paddle.
Unable to pay the bills and unable to live from week to week.
You think you've got every base covered, but in reality it would take very little in the way of changes before you'd be 100% reliant on society to bail you out.
That's ok, that's why we have such a system in place to help out people through difficult times.
You can't sit there and say
but I actually want a collapse of society. I want money to become obsolete. I want government to disapear. I think the planet needs a massive human cull
But then be in a position where if your Mrs fell ill or ran off you'd be 100% reliant on those you want to "cull"
As i say extremely short sighted not to mention immature.
