Shelf Life 061: How Canned Goods and Quiet Preppers Are Redefining Emergency Culture

“If we aren’t able to set aside some personal freedoms to keep a million or more people from dying needlessly from a novel virus, and to keep our health care system from imploding, then heaven help us when climate change hits and the economy crumbles due to our hitting a series of environmental limits.”55

We might be focused these days on how we are only nine meals from anarchy, but there are stories from throughout history about how rapid transitions lead to ingenuity, flourishing, imagination and togetherness.11