Practical Doomsday: A User's Guide to End of the World
Practical Doomsday
Whether you're wrestling bears in the wilderness, struggling to stay safe online, or shopping for
the right home insurance policy, Practical Doomsday will take you on an engrossing, mind-bending, and data-packed
journey through the world of sensible emergency preparedness.
With its emphasis on flexible risk management and financial resiliency, the goal of the book is not to weave survivalist fantasies
or plumb the depths of conspiratorial thought. In fact, I want to reclaim the concept of prepping from the bunker-dwelling prophets of doom.
Disasters are not rare, but
principled preparedness isn't about succumbing to fear or gearing up to fight in a post-apocalyptic world. The objective is
much simpler: a well-reasoned backup plan will help you sleep well at night when everybody else is worried sick.
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🙘 Abbreviated table of contents 🙚
Preface
PART I: Thinking about risk Learning from the past, reasoning about the future, and making sense of predictions in an ever-changing world.
1. A method to the madness
Telling fact from fiction, developing a taxonomy of everyday risks, and weighing the trade-offs of various mitigation strategies.
2. The specter of humdrum calamities
Mapping out common small-scale hardships, from unemployment to kitchen fires and car accidents.
3. Exploring large-scale risks
Developing practical, level-headed strategies for mass-scale disasters, from recessions to severe weather episodes.