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Mat Stein, author of When Technology Fails: A Manual for Self-Reliance, Sustainability, and Surviving the Long Emergency Mat Stein holds a degree in Mechanical Engineering from MIT , During the height of the ‘goldilocks economy’ of the mid-1990s, Mat Stein wrote When Technology Fails, a master compendium of do-it-yourself preparation skills.Author and engineer Mat Stein talked about the need for disaster preparedness. People should have a “Grab-And-Run Emergency Kit,” which contains such things as water treatment chemicals in case clean drinking water is not available, he suggested. There are six scenarios that could lead to a disaster emergency– climate change, peak in world oil, the collapse of the world’s oceans, deforestation, food crises, and overpopulation, he outlined.
Where are you going to run to? There’s nowhere to hide anymore. There’s nowhere to go when you “bug out”.