the survival of the less

Often we read about the tips to survive the apocalypse and we all imagine a movie scenary on how we should make pur insticnts work to prepare to survive. We can find many rules on how to save clean water food shelter energy and medicine.

How a society post natural disasters would look like?

From preppers to astronauts , there is many people talking about survival. We often hear that the 1% richer on the world will be who is gonna survive and is prepared for it. Often when we talk about ‘natural disasters’ there can be an underlying belief that there is nothing we could have done to prevent calamity. But there are many things we can do and much we have learned from disasters of the past. Just as human activity has accelerated climate change, our interaction with the world we live in contributes to natural hazards becoming disasters.

There is no such thing as a natural disaster, but disasters often follow natural hazards they affect not isolated individuals but rather people who are embedded in networks of social relationships. Regularly on transit or living on places are not prepared for the hazards.

What really happens after an apocalypse? Society works better than it ever had, for a brief time.

Writer Rebecca Solnit wrote an entire book about this phenomenon, and she called it A Paradise Built in Hell. She points out that it is really the fear on the part of powerful people that powerless people will react to trauma with irrational violence that is preventing us from seeing how apocalypse really shapes our societies. Solnit calls this ‘elite panic’, and contrasts it with the idea of ‘civic temper’ the utopian potential of meaningful community.

Should we not be designing our communities to protect from natural hazards?

How we make survive the survivors?