Forum Overview :: Orbitor 1 :: We should be printing books about how to survive a societal collapse.

[quote name="Droz"]Regular books we can get on our kindles, but this stuff is important. There's a Gideon Bible in every motel room in North America. Would it kill them to add an appendix about how to grow food and tie knots and stuff? God wants us to survive! Everything you need to know to duck a plague like COVID-19 could fit on a business card. But, in the absence of mass media, would you know where to find that information at your local library? Do they even HAVE that information at your local library? This is what I'm worried about. Did you know that after an atomic war, you could still eat the fruit off the trees? As long as you cut off the outer layer first, of course, because it would certainly be fatally irradiated by nuclear fallout. But don't eat any animals! That dear you speared must have been eating something, and he didn't know about the fallout rules, so he's already metabolized enough poison to make you lose your hair and puke up your internal organs. Maybe, I don't know, this is all based on movies I saw before everything went sideways. You shouldn't have to depend on pre-war geniuses like me to carry you through the apocalypse. There should be volumes of easy to understand instructions at every post office in the country. As far as I'm concerned, libraries could just be warm places for homeless people to sleep, as long as their cots are stuffed with IKEA pamphlets about how not to die if you've somehow managed to cockroach through the initial cataclysm. We've got a lot of potential apocalypses stacking up. For example, depending on who you listen to, we've either got another ten years or about negative six months to stop all greenhouse emissions before it's too late. I'm not betting on that happening. So I'd at least like some hard copies of what to do after the arctic permafrost melts, and the buried methane deposits enter the atmosphere, and the seas become too acidic to support marine life, and all the oxygen is fucking gone. Right now, I wouldn't have the first clue how to live without oxygen. This is why we need the instruction books![/quote]