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.http://geraldcelentechannel.blogspot.com/